Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enrolled with the Voltigeurs de Québec in Shelter Bay, Quebec. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 13 September 1943, D Company, he arrived in Italy on 15 December. He was detached to an important artillery observation post on the Gothic Line. He was killed in action repairing a telephone wire broken by shrapnel near Casa Berardi. He was buried there on 20 December 1943, before being exhumed and reburied in the Moro River Cemetery in Italy. He had 873 days of service, including 149 overseas.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 141 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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