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Private Viateur Chouinard

Military service

Service number: D800333
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22nd Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: December 23, 1928 Cap-Chat, Québec
Enlistment: August 12, 1950 Ste-Adélaïde de Pabos, Québec
Death: May 21, 1951 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: PLOT 20. ROW 1. GRAVE #1123
Additional information

Son of Pierre Chouinard and Appoline Deroy from Gaspé, Québec. Brother of Jean Marc, Normand, Jeanne, Alberthe, Marguerite, Oviette, Gislaine and Pierrette.

On 19 April 1951, he left Canada for Japan. On 4 May, he arrived in Pusan, South Korea, aboard the American transport ship USNS Marine Adder. He died accidentally on 21 May 1951 from a gunshot wound.

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.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 11 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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