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Baptized Joseph Thomas Victor Noël Giguère. Son of Thomas Giguère and Florida Bertrand of Montreal, Quebec.
When he enlisted, he claimed to have been born in 1920. A very undisciplined soldier. Enlisted in the Régiment de Maisonneuve, he sailed for Great Britain on June 20, 1941, and landed at Greenock, Scotland. Transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment, he sailed again for Italy on October 27 with Force M, arriving on November 9. He reached the front on the 29th. He was killed in action on May 25, 1944, near Pontecorvo in the Liri Sacco Valley, close to the Cassilina road between Campania and Lazio. He was temporarily buried in Pontecorvo on the same day. Around June 27, 1945, his body was exhumed and reburied in the military cemetery in Cassino. He had served 1,492 days, including 1,070 days overseas.
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Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CASSINO WAR CEMETERY Italy
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY lies in the Commune of Cassino, Province of Frosinone, 139 kilometres south-east of Rome. It is situated in the valley of the River Liri immediately below the southern spurs of the central Apennines. Above it at a distance of one kilometre is the dominating hill on which stands the Abbey of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the year 529 on the site of an ancient temple of Apollo.
If approaching the CASSINO WAR CEMETERY by road, follow the Highway A2 from Rome to Naples and leave it at the Cassino exit. After passing the pay booths, follow the sign for Cassino. At the traffic lights, after a block of flats, turn right towards the locality of S. Angelo and the CWGC signs will then be seen.
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