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Son of Jacques and Lia V. Malouin, of Valleyfield, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Louis Maurice Malouin
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Lieutenant Louis Maurice Malouin
A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Louis Maurice Malouin
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Louis Maurice Malouin
You can see my uncle Maurice Malouin on a roof in London before being mobilized and participating in the Normandy landings. Following the landing, on the night of June 6 to 7, 1944 the American bombers dropped bombs but they miscalculated and several fell on the beach where the Canadian soldiers were and several died like my uncle following this bombardment. On his return from the war, a soldier came to meet my grandmother in Valleyfield to tell that if he was alive it was his son Maurice that he saved his life by throwing himself over his body during the bombardment. last was saved thanks to my uncle. For me my uncle is a hero and I would like this to be noted. Thank you
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Lieutenant Louis Maurice Malouin
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens)
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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You can see my uncle Maurice Malouin on a roof in London before being mobilized and participating in the Normandy landings. Following the landing, on the night of June 6 to 7, 1944 the American bombers dropped bombs but they miscalculated and several fell on the beach where the Canadian soldiers were and several died like my uncle following this bombardment. On his return from the war, a soldier came to meet my grandmother in Valleyfield to tell that if he was alive it was his son Maurice that he saved his life by throwing himself over his body during the bombardment. last was saved thanks to my uncle. For me my uncle is a hero and I would like this to be noted. Thank you
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From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 377 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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