Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Joseph Cleophas Armand Legault
In memory of:
Wiper Joseph Cleophas Armand Legault
March 13, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
45
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Ville de Liège (Antwerp, Belgium)
Additional Information
May 1, 1895
Montréal, Quebec
Son of Dr. Joseph Napoléon Legault dit Deslauriers and Angélina Hébert of Montréal, Québec. Husband of Regina Malette of Montréal. Father of Marie Desneiges Jeanne Gizell et de Marie Rose Delorosa Anne Gabrièle Legault.
During the First World War, he enlisted on 8 November 1915 with the Composite Regiment, regimental number 779, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Discharged from the army, he re-enlisted on 6 November 1918 with the 4th Battalion, Canadian Garrison Regiment, regimental number 2696653. He was demobilized without ever having seen action.
According to the logbook of U-52, this ship, away from convoy OB-306, was torpedoed at 1:17 a.m. on 14 April 1941 about 700 miles (1,127 km) east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, and sank at 2:10 a.m., position 59°50'N/29°39'W.
Commemorated on Page 174 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 18.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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