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Ordinary Seaman Leon Armand Gauthier

Military service

Service number: 11708-H
Age: 19
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Navy
Birth: July 29, 1931 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: December 31, 1949 Toronto, Ontario
Death: January 11, 1951

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Son of Herman Joseph and Edna (née Desgardine) Gauthier of Lakeview, Ontario. Brother of John Gerrard Joseph, Donald Gerald James, Lawrence Joseph Hector and half-brother Robert Arnold Joseph. Ordinary Seaman Gauthier is also commemorated on the Korean War Memorial at the Naval Museum of Alberta at HMCS Tecumseh in Calgary, Alberta and the Wall of Remembrance in Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 25 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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COMMONWEALTH MEMORIAL (BUSAN) South Korea

The memorial is located in the United Nations Cemetery in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The stone memorial with bronze panels was erected to commemorate commonwealth soldiers who died and whose burial places are unknown. Twenty one Canadians are listed on the bronze plaques.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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