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Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins

Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins

Male 1922 - 1944  (22 years)

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  • Name Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins  [1, 2
    Birth 9 Mar 1922  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 12 Mar 1922  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    385 Sussex Dr 
    • Notre-Dame
    Residence 1940  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Address:
    88 Guigues Street 
    • see attestation paper
    Enlisted 1 Jun 1943  Kinston, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 11 Jun 1944  Calvados, France, Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Jacques Desjardins 124774 death notice.jpg
    Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins
    Obittuary 29 Jun 1944  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • The Ottawa Journal
    Fact Army 
    Fact C/121371 
    Fact Le Regiment de la Chaudière, R.C.I.C.  [2
    Burial Calvados, France, Find all individuals with events at this location  [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
    Person ID I124774  Lowertown
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2021 

    Mother Dora Roy,   b. Abt 1881, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F33333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • Son of Herve and Dora Desjardins, of Ottawa, Ontario [2]
    • Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .

  • Sources 
    1. [S3346] 4 Mar 2021 (Reliability: 3).
      Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967
      Ottawa
      Basilique Notre Dame
      1919-1928

    2. [S3438] (Reliability: 3).
      The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM)

    3. [S3521] (Reliability: 3).