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Son of Rosario Charpentier and Mirza Marineau from Trois-Rivières, Québec.

During the night, an American unit launched an assault and retook the western slope of hill 355, thus relieving the pressure that the Chinese were exerting on the Canadians. Attacks continued throughout the night and late into the morning of the 24th. Canada and the Korean War, Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence, Art Global, 2002, pages 91-92. ‘Around 4.20 p.m., all hell broke loose. Troops from all directions were once again attacking D Company. Surprised by a force estimated to be at least two companies, the left wing commanded by Lieutenant MacDuff was quickly overwhelmed... Shortly afterwards the survivors of No. 11 Platoon, crushed by too great a force, managed to break free and gain the positions of No. 12 Platoon. In addition to Lieutenant MacDuff, who was wounded, the platoon defending the company's left flank had lost 12 of its 29 men... some time after sunset, at 9.20 p.m., the Chinese troops attacked for the fifth time in three days... Assaulting the left and centre of D Company, Lieutenant Côté, aware of the gravity of the situation, called for the immediate and massive intervention of the artillery... In the space of a few minutes, no less than 3,500 shells exploded just a few metres from No 12 Platoon. That was all it took to break up what was to be the last major attack against the 22nd in the autumn of 1951. The Battalions and Depot of the Royal 22e Régiment, pages 70 to 73.

His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in the Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Peel (Ontario), erected in 1997 in memory of the 516 Canadians killed in action between 26 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa (Ontario). An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan, South Korea.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

Commemorated on Page 11 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.