Remembering World War II

Gerald Joseph Gaudet

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Name: Gerald Joseph Gaudet Rank: Private Service Number: F/79746 Service: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Date of Birth: February 3, 1915 Place of Birth: Amherst, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: June 27, 1942 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: 6 Hill St, Amherst, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 29 Height: 5 feet, 6 ¼ inches Complexion: Fair Eye colour: Green Hair colour: Brown Occupation: Hotel Clerk and Taxi Driver Marital Status: Single Next of Kin: Clovis Gaudet (Father), Amherst, Nova Scotia Date of Death: August 6, 1942 Age: 29 Cemetery: St. Charles Cemetery, Amherst, Nova Scotia Grave: Lot 104 Commemorated on Page 75 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 19 Gerald Joseph Gaudet was the son of Clovis Gaudet (1876–1949) and Marie Elodie ‘Mary’ (Brun) Gaudet (1886–1959), of Amherst, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia. His parents were married August 8, 1909, in Cape Bald (now known as Cap-Pelé), New Brunswick. Gerald had two sisters, Evangeline Margaret (Gaudet) Sharp (1916-1976), and Kathleen Gaudet (1922-1998), and three older half-brothers from his father’s first wife Regina LeBlanc (1878-1908) Leonard Gaudet (1910- 1918), Geoffrey Albert Gaudet and Maximin Albert Gaudet. Gerald completed 8 years of public school and left at the age of 17. Prior to his enlistment, he was working as a taxi driver, and as hotel clerk and night porter at the Terrace Hotel in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was interested in music, played hockey and hoped to learn a trade after the war. He joined the Army “to be of service” and the army assessed him as “stable, friendly and alert”. After enlisting in June of 1942, he was assigned to the No. 6 District Depot in Halifax. Gerald was admitted to the Halifax Military Hospital, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 29, 1942. He died of tuberculosis / meningitis on August 6, 1942. The body of Private Gerald Joseph Gaudet was returned to his home town of Amherst for interment in the St. Charles Cemetery.