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1922 - 1944 (22 years)
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Name |
Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins [1, 2] |
Birth |
9 Mar 1922 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1, 2] |
Gender |
Male |
Baptism |
12 Mar 1922 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1] |
Address: 385 Sussex Dr |
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Residence |
1940 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [2] |
Address: 88 Guigues Street |
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Enlisted |
1 Jun 1943 |
Kinston, Ontario, Canada [2] |
Death |
11 Jun 1944 |
Calvados, France, |
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Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins
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Obittuary |
29 Jun 1944 |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [3] |
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Fact |
Army |
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C/121371 |
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Le Regiment de la Chaudière, R.C.I.C. [2] |
Burial |
Calvados, France, [2] |
Grave Reference: VIII. H. 9.
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 Gérald Jacques Desjardins
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Person ID |
I124774 |
Lowertown |
Last Modified |
29 Aug 2021 |
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Notes |
- Son of Herve and Dora Desjardins, of Ottawa, Ontario [2]
- Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .
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Sources |
- [S3346] 4 Mar 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)
- [S3521] (Reliability: 3).
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