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Baptized Joseph Elphège Albert Dupuis, he served under the name Albert Dupuis. Husband of Barbara Frances Margaret Marden. Son of Armand Dupuis and Georgina Leblanc. Father of Joanna Irene Barbara and Albert Roy Armand Dupuis. Brother of Armand, Arthur, Gerard, Victor, Roger and Fernand, Rita, Thérèse and Janina.
Enlisted on September 6, 1950, in the Canadian Army Special Force in Montreal, Quebec, he was first transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment on September 8, then to the 1st Battalion on October 14, and finally to the 3rd Battalion on September 19, 1951. He left for Japan on December 28 and arrived in South Korea on April 2, 1952, while serving with the 1st Battalion. He was killed in action on May 6, 1952, while on patrol during a Chinese ambush east of the Sami-chon River in South Korea.
His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery, Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 to commemorate the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan (South Korea).
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Private Joseph Elphége Albert Dupuis
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Private Joseph Elphége Albert Dupuis
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Private Joseph Elphége Albert Dupuis
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Page 20 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea
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