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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
Commemorated on:
Page 359 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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