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Private Marcel Courval

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Military service

Service number: E/4760
Age: 28
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 8, 1915 Montreal, Québec
Enlistment: November 25, 1939 Montreal, Québec
Death: September 28, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 14.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Octave Marcel Courval. Son of Alexandre Courval and Sénora Deschatelets of Montréal, Québec. Engaged to Alice Vaillancourt of Ste-Adèle-en-Haut, Terrebonne, Québec.

He sailed for Great Britain on 9 December 1939 and arrived in Greenock, Scotland, on the 18th. On 29 June 1943, he embarked to take part in the Allied landings in Sicily. He landed on the beaches on the 11th, the day after the start of Operation Husky. He set foot in Italy on 3 September and drowned accidentally on 28 September. At the time, the Royal 22e Régiment was at San Severo, on the Foggia plain.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defense Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 149 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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