Private Ulysse Bruneau

Birth registered under the name J.P. Ulysse Bruneau. Son of Alcide Bruneau and Evelina Péloquin of Rawdon, Quebec. Alcide was conscripted into the Canadian army and enlisted on 26 August 1918 in Montréal, Québec, service number 3172612, and was demobilized on 25 September without ever having crossed overseas.

Enlisted in Montréal, Québec, with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, he trained as a nurse. He embarked for England on 20 July 1944, arriving on the 27th. Assigned to the Mediterranean theatre of operations on 3 November 1944, he arrived in Italy on the 18th, was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 15 December 1944, and rejoined his unit fighting in the Ortona area on the 16th. Reported missing on the 31st, he was declared a probable prisoner of war, then presumed dead from wounds sustained in combat. He was finally recognised as killed in action on 31 December 1944 on the dikes of the Senio river, Italy.