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Baptized Joseph Alcide Lebrasseur. Son of Abraham Lebrasseur and Émélie Denis from Paspébiac, Bonaventure, Québec. Brother of Private Jean Paul Lebrasseur, who served overseas during the Second World War. He survived the war.
Enlisted at the 5th District Military Depot in Quebec City, Quebec, and was placed on the general list. On February 16, 1944, he embarked for Great Britain and arrived there on the 25th. On March 26, as part of the Mediterranean Force M, he boarded a troop transport and landed on the Italian mainland on April 9. During the crossing, on March 29, he had been transferred to the 4th Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment. He was hospitalized from September 19 to November 17, 1944. Upon returning to his unit, he was killed in action on December 12, 1944, during an assault on the Fosso Vetro Canal between the Lamone and Bagnacavallo rivers. He was buried on the 15th northwest of Russi along the road leading to Ravenna in the regiment’s cemetery, grave number 23. He was later exhumed and reburied at the British Empire Cemetery in Ravenna, grave number II.F.5.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 362 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY Italy
The site for the cemetery was selected by the Army in 1945 for burials from the surrounding battlefields. Ravenna was taken by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of December 1944, and the burials in the cemetery there reflect the fighting for the Senio line and the period of relative quiet during the first three months of 1945. Many of the men buried there were Canadians; one of the last tasks of the Canadian Corps before being moved to north-west Europe was the clearing of the area between Ravenna and the Comacchio lagoon. Others are Indians from the 10th Indian Division, and New Zealanders. The Cemetery also contains the graves of 30, 1914-18 War casualties concentrated in March 1974 from Gradisca Communal Cemetery , Italy and 3 other burials concentrated from other minor cemeteries in Italy. There are now over 30 graves of the First World War and 956 graves plus one Special Memorial of the Second World War.
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