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Joseph Henri Marcel Boucher
In memory of:
Private Joseph Henri Marcel Boucher
February 4, 1945
Russi, Italy
Military Service
D/66134
30
Army
Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
Additional Information
January 18, 1915
Trois-Rivières, Quebec
February 28, 1942
Montreal South, Quebec
Son of Joseph Albéric Boucher and Cécile Lacroix of Trois-Rivières, Québec. Brother of Private Maurice Boucher, who also served in Europe during the Second World War. He survived the conflict.
In 1934, he was a cadet, then cadet-officer and private in the Trois-Rivières Regiment - NPAM - for two months, regimental number 413. Enrolled on 28 February 1942 in the Régiment de Joliette, matricule D-66134, in Montréal, Québec, he crossed to England on 24 September. Transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on 12 May 1943, he was posted to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations on 28 June. He took part in the fighting in Sicily from 11 July 1943. On 3 September, he landed at Reggio on the Italian mainland. He fought at Potenza, Sangro, near Casa Berardi, at Torre Mucchio, on the Gustav Line, where he was wounded, and on the Gothic Line, crossing the Lamone River. As Lance Corporal, he was last seen at around 7 p.m. on 4 February 1945. Accompanied by three men, Sergeant Roma Oligny, serial number D-118531, Privates Wilfrid Delisle, serial number D-140137, and Laurent Rochette, serial number B-118427, he approached to within 45 feet (13.7 m) of a German machine-gun nest to lay barbed wire. These four Canadians never returned. Initially reported missing and presumed a prisoner of war, he was declared killed in action along the Senio River in the Russi sector of Italy in November 1945.
Commemorated on Page 497 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
CASSINO MEMORIAL
Italy
Panel 14.
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 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 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.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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