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Lance Corporal LEON JOSEPH RICHARD

Service Number: F/49820
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 02 August 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

B, E, 203.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Amedie Joseph and Emma Mary Richard, of Amherst, Nova Scotia; husband of Iris Annie Richard, of Amherst.
  • Personal Inscription "HE CHOSE HIM OUT OF ALL MEN LIVING TO OFFER SACRIFICE TO GOD"

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Buried or commemorated at

AGIRA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 490
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