Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Located at the Memramcook Veteran's Park, Memramcook NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

Memorial – Lionel Dupuis' name is included on the Dieppe Veterans Memorial, Dieppe NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

Memorial – Stone located at St-Anselme Cemetery, Dieppe NB, Canada. Submitted by Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)

Gravemarker for Lionel Dupuis – Photo taken on October 1, 2002 to send to his brother Lorenzo, who has never been able to come and visit this site. As promised in Montréal on August 19, 2002.

Photo of Lionel Dupuis – Picture of Lionel Dupuis on leave at St.Anselme, N.B. Canada (shown with younger brother Lorenzo)

Photo of Lionel Dupuis – Picture of Lionel Dupuis (the tall one) prior to enlistment in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940

Entrance

Cemetery

Original Grave marker

Grave Marker – Lionel Dupuis is buring in the Lierre Military Cemetery, Grave 2, Row A, Plot 2. The following info. is from The Imperial War Graves Commission publication containing the Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and are buried in Cemeteries in Belgium, one of which is the Lier (Lierre) Belgian Military Cemetery. Lier (Fr. Lierre) is in the Flemish-speaking province of Antwerp, 10 1/2 miles southeast of the city of Antwerp. The Cemetery is situated on the south side of the road from Lier to Melchelen(Malines), one mile from Lier and 1 1/4 miles from the railway station. This Cemetery contains 420 Belgian graves of the 1914-1918 War, and 42 British Common-wealth graves of the 1939-1945 War. Of these, 32 are those of men of the British Army, 9 of men of the Canadian Army, while the occupant of the remaining one is entirely unidentified. Of the 9 Canadians, two are from Le Régiment de Maisonneuve ; Pte Riel Jobidon, son of Adrien and Mary Jobidon from Mackey's Station, Ontario, and Lionel. His entry in the register (on page 46) reads as follows: DUPUIS, Cpl. Lionel, Gerald, K167388. Le Régiment de Maisonneuve, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. 1st October, 1944. Age 24. Son of Tom and Annie Dupuis, of St. Anselme, New Brunswick, Canada. II.A.2. (Grave 2, Row A, Plot 2.) We also note from the Register that the graves on either side of Lionel are occupied by the other two regiments forming the 5th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division~ these are II.A. I (Joseph Ambrose McDonald of the The.Calgary Highlanders. RC.I.C., parents not identified) and II.A.3(Joseph Gerald Godfrey of The Black Watch(Royal Highland Regt.) of Canada, son of Rae Godfrey and Automile Godfrey of Montreal, with the headstone bearing the Star of David). All three died on 1st October, 1944.

Biography

Grave Marker – Great-nephew Ariel Zuckerman posing beside his Great Uncle's grave.

Grave Marker – Niece Anna Dupuis Zuckerman paying respects to her Uncle.

Family Photo – Family paying respects to a fallen Canadian Hero.