Private Noël Domina Lamontagne

Baptized Joseph Noël Domina Lamontagne. Son of Eugène Lamontagne and Almanda Lahaie, of Coaticook, Stanstead, Quebec. Brother of soldiers Rolland Lamontagne and Gérard Lamontagne. They survived the war.

Enlisted at the 4th District Military Depot of the Royal Canadian Artillery in Montreal South, he embarked for Great Britain on July 18, 1943, and arrived there on the 28th. On October 20, he was assigned to Force M in the Mediterranean theater of operations; he sailed for Italy on the 24th and arrived there on November 9. On October 9, 1944, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment and, on January 24, 1945, to the 4th Battalion. On March 15, he departed Italy, first for France, where he arrived on the 17th. He then continued on to Belgium and then the Netherlands. On May 13, 1945, around 10 a.m., while serving as a messenger, he was involved in a traffic accident when his motorcycle struck obstacles near a bridge that had been blown up and hastily rebuilt. He died that same day from his injuries. He was laid to rest on the 13th at the Allied Cemetery in West Scheveningen (now The Hague), Loosduinen, Netherlands. He was exhumed on June 22, 1946, to be reburied at the Canadian Military Cemetery in Holten, Netherlands.