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Hilaire Barrieau
In memory of:
Lance Sergeant Hilaire Barrieau
July 18, 1943
Monte delle Forme, Sicily, Italy
Military Service
E/4581
25
Army
Royal 22e Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Additional Information
July 31, 1917
Acadiaville, New Brunswick
November 10, 1939
Montreal, Quebec
Baptized Joseph Hilaire Barriault.
Son of Joseph Antoine Barriault and Ursule Babin from Acadiaville, New Brunswick. Husband of Alberta Ivy Jennings from Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Father of June Mary and Sheila Hilary Barrieau.
He took part in the Allied landings in Sicily on 10 July 1943, where he was killed on the 18th in a German ambush on the Monte delle Forme plateau. He was buried by the roadside on the 28th. After the war, his body was exhumed and reburied in Agira, Sicily.
Commemorated on Page 134 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
C, C, 296.
Agira Canadian War Cemetery lies in the Commune of Agira, Province of Enna, in the centre of Sicily. From the autostrada A19, Catania-Palermo, take the exit to Catenanuova. Follow signposts to Regalbuto, then pass Regalbuto, going in the direction of Agira. The Cemetery is then signposted about 12 kilometres from Regalbuto. On 10 July 1943, following the successful conclusion of the north African campaign in mid May, a combined allied force of 160,000 Commonwealth and American troops invaded Sicily as a prelude to the assault on mainland Italy. The Italians, who would shortly make peace with the Allies and re-enter the war on their side, offered little determined resistance but German opposition was vigorous and stubborn. The campaign in Sicily came to an end on 17 August when the two allied forces came together at Messina, but failed to cut off the retreating Axis lines. Agira was taken by the 1st Canadian Division of 28 July and the site for the war cemetery was chosen in September for the burial of all Canadians who had been killed in the Sicily campaign. Agira Canadian War Cemetery contains 491 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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