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Enlisted in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, he became an instructor in Quebec and Ontario. Promoted to corporal on 1 July 1943, he was posted to the Italian theatre of operations on 3 May 1944. On 9 June, he was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment. He took part in the fighting at Borgo Santa Maria and Hill 131. He was killed in action on 1 September 1944 during the capture of Mount Luro. He was buried on the 2nd in Pesaro, grave 10, before being exhumed and reburied in Montecchio War Cemetery, Italy.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
Digital gallery of Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
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Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Marcel Bourgouin
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Page 255 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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