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Baptized Joseph Yvon Jean Guy Gagnon. Son of William and Marguerite (née Genest) Gagnon of Quebec, Quebec. Brother of Roger, Jean, half-brother Raymond and sister Pierrette.
Enlisted in 1951, he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment in 1952. He was accidentally killed by shrapnel to the head at the training camp in Wainwright, Alberta, when a shell exploded at around 5 p.m. on July 19, 1952, during a course for junior non-commissioned officers preparing for deployment to South Korea. He was taken to hospital, where he died seven hours later. The explosion also injured three other soldiers.
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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Page 25 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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SAINT CHARLES CEMETERY QUEBEC Quebec, Canada
1376 rue St-Vallier, Québec (Québec) Canada
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