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Burial/memorial information
His full name was Jean Marie Léonard Ludger Langlois. He was the son of Joseph Langlois and Marie Comeau of Pointe-aux-Anglais, Saguenay, Quebec.
When he enlisted in the Régiment de la Chaudière, he claimed to have been born on May 7, 1921, in Pentecôte, Saguenay. He sailed for Great Britain on July 20, 1941, arriving in Gourock, Scotland, on the 30th. Assigned to Force M in the Mediterranean on May 3, 1944, he sailed for Italy, where he landed on the 16th. He was immediately transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment. From July 14 to September 12, he took a sniper course. On the 13th, he joined the 4th Battalion, 22nd Regiment. From August 9 to 16, 1944, he was treated at the 104th General Hospital for combat injuries. On September 14, he was seriously wounded during fighting on Mount Marano in the San Martino sector, during the breakthrough of the Rimini Line. He died on the 15th at 3:00 a.m. at the 9th Canadian General Hospital. He was buried on the 16th in the regimental cemetery in grave A.7. Around May 31, 1945, his remains were exhumed and reburied at the British Empire Cemetery in Gradara.
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Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Grave marker - Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Row of markers in the tiered Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013 ... Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of the Cross of Sacrifice from the tiered rows of Gradara War Cemetery - May 2013
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Langlois
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Langlois
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Langlois
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Langlois
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 359 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GRADARA WAR CEMETERY Italy
GRADARA WAR CEMETERY is situated in the Commune of Gradara in the Province of Pesaro, at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres from the shores of the Adriatic. To reach the GRADARA WAR CEMETERY from Highway A14 (Bologna-Taranto), exit at Cattolica, which is the nearest town and a seaside resort. The Cemetery is on the main road 5 kilometres south west of the town.
The cemetery occupies a unique position on a hillside which was terraced for agriculture, each row of graves taking up one terrace. The site for the cemetery was chosen in November 1944 and it contains the graves of casualties incurred during the advance from Ancona to Rimini (which broke the Gothic Line) and in the heavy fighting around Rimini, which was taken by the Allies on 21st September 1944.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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