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Lance Corporal Charles Eusèbe Boulianne

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Military service

Service number: E/4126
Age: 26
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22nd Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 16, 1916 Chicoutimi
Enlistment: September 14, 1939
Death: October 9, 1943 Jelsi, Italy

Burial/memorial information

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. D. 3.
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Son of Jean Boulianne and Lydia Gilbert from Chicoutimi, Québec.

He previously served with the Régiment du Saguenay from 26 June 1937 to 13 September 1939. Assigned to B Company of the Royal 22e Régiment, he took part in the Allied landings in Sicily on 10 July 1943. He arrived in Italy on 3 September and was killed in action on 9 October 1943 in the hills of Jelsi, Italy. He was buried on the 10th by the roadside in Gambatesa. He was exhumed and reburied at the Moro River Cemetery in Ortona, Italy. He had 1,487 days of service, including 1,400 days overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 138 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.

The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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