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1921 - 1944 (22 years)
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Name |
Joseph Marcel Willie Gauthier [1, 2, 3] |
Birth |
18 Nov 1921 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Baptism |
22 Nov 1921 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1] |
Address: 385 Sussex Dr |
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Confirmation |
18 May 1929 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1] |
Address: 385 Sussex Dr |
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Occupation |
1943 [3] |
Short Order Cook |
Enlisted |
11 Jan 1943 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [3] |
Residence |
11 Jan 1943 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [3] |
Address: 428 Rideau Street |
Obittuary |
1944 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Fact |
Army [2] |
Fact |
Le Regiment de la Chaudière, [2] |
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Private [2] |
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R.C.I.C. [2] |
Residence |
1944 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [2] |
Address: 54 Murray Street |
Death |
15 Jul 1944 |
France [2] |
Burial |
Aft 15 Jul 1944 |
Calvados, France, [2] |
Address: BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY |
- Grave Reference: IX. A. 11.
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
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Joseph Marcel Willie Gauthier
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Person ID |
I124673 |
Lowertown |
Last Modified |
15 Oct 2021 |
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Notes |
- Son of Henri and Rose Blanche Gauthier, of Ottawa, Ontario. [2]
- Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .
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Sources |
- [S3346] 20 Feb 2021 (Reliability: 3).
Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967
Ottawa
Basilique Notre Dame
1919-1928
- [S3438] (Reliability: 3).
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM)
- [S3437] (Reliability: 3).
Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
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