Bienvenue, Joseph Marcellin Gilles

Date of birth:: March 13th, 1922 (Stockholm/Saskatchewan, Canada)
Date of death:: December 4th, 1944 (Dreumel/Gelderland, Netherlands)
Buried on:: Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: I. Row: H. Grave: 13.
Service number:: D/3872
Nationality:: Canadian
Rang/eenheid:: Corporal in RAC: 7th Recce Regt. Duke of Yorks Royal Canadian Hussars

Biography

Corporal
17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, R.C.A.C.
7th Reconnaissance Regt.

Joseph voluntarily signed up for military service in Montreal South on April 21, 1941 and from April 27 he was assigned to the 17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (17th).
On April 21, 1943 Joseph was awarded the Good Conduct Badge, a badge that was awarded after two years of service in the army.
After a thorough training it was time to go to the war in the west of Europe. He left from the United Kingdom by ship and arrived in France on July 15, 1944. Here he was promoted to Lance Corporal and on November 28, he became an A/Corporal.
Shortly afterwards, on December 4, 1944, Joseph Bienvenue got killed in Dreumel, Holland. He died of his wounds when he was only twenty-two years old.

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