Name: Joseph Denis Comeau Rank: Private Service Number: F/10561 Service: Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian infantry Corps Date of Birth: May 28, 1923 Place of Birth: St. Bernard, Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: June 17, 1944 Place of Enlistment: Fort McNab, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address of Enlistment: St. Bernard, Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 21 Height: 5 feet, 8 inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Black Occupation: Woodsman Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Marie Lucy Comeau (Mother) Date of Death: April 9, 1945 Age: 21 Cemetery: Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Grave: Section III, Row D, Grave 9 Commemorated on Page 505 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed on the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 27 Joseph Denis Comeau was the son of Elisée Comeau (1887-1938) and Lucie (Theriault) Comeau (b. 1892), of St. Bernard, Digby Co., Nova Scotia, and the brother of Cecile (Comeau) Gaudet, Rosella Comeau, Eugenie (Comeau) Boudreau, Rose Marie Comeau, Joseph William ‘Willie’ Comeau and Beatrice Comeau. Joseph served with the 1st Halifax Coast Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) under the National Resources Mobilization Act from January 27, 1943, until his enlistment in the active force in June of 1944 when he attested for general service in Halifax. He departed Canada for the UK in November of 1944, and transferred from England to North Western Europe on January 23, 1945, and died April 9, 1945, during the Liberation of the Netherlands, just prior to the Battle of Groningen mid-April 1945. He was initially buried in Holland near a church in Haarle in the Netherlands and was later reinterred at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave