Private Donat Châtigny

Son of Alphonse Châtigny and Délia Daigneault. Brother of Robert, Ursule, Armand, Jeanne D'Arc, Rita and Marie Claire and of Major Jean Joseph Châtigny MM, CD, regimental number SD-145618, who also served in Korea as a major and was repatriated with the unit on 2 May 1953.

He was transferred to the 3rd Battalion from 28 November 1951 to 11 February 1952 and to the 1st Battalion on the 12th. He left for Japan on 14 April 1952. A member of B Company, he arrived in South Korea. During the night of 5 September 1952 to 6, the Royal 22e Régiment received a rain of 400 shells poured on companies B and C killing four men and wounding five others. A six-man patrol had to retreat. Châtigny was killed by Chinese artillery while defending a front that stretched between the destroyed villages of Paujol-gol and Kojanhari-saemal.

His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 in memory of the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 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.