Name: Telesphore Joseph Comeau Rank: Sapper Service Number: F/601010 Service: Royal Canadian Engineers, Canadian Army Date of Birth: December 1, 1919 Place of Birth: St. Bernard, Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: April 6, 1942 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Address of Enlistment: Belliveau’s Cove, Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 6 ½ inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Greyish Blue Hair Colour: Dark Brown Occupation: Farmer, laborer, truck helper Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Dellie Comeau (Mother) Date of Death: November 10, 1943 Age: 23 Cemetery: Saint Bernard Catholic Cemetery (New), Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Grave: Lot 2, Range C, Grave 21 Commemorated on Page 147 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed on the Peace Tower in Ottawa on March 28 Telesphore ‘Telles’ Joseph Comeau was the son of Marius Comeau (1891-1973, b. in Comeauville) and Adele or Adela ‘Dellie’ (Hill) Comeau (b. circa 1898 in St. Bernard) of Belliveau’s Cove in Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia. Telles’ brothers were Ernest, Leo, Joseph, Freddie Joseph (d. 2005), Willie, Emile and Edwin Comeau, and sisters Emilie (Comeau) Kearney, Adele (Comeau) Amirault, Edesse (Comeau) Dugas, Clemente (Comeau) Stuart and Louise Comeau (d. April 9, 1943). His military record Estates Branch document states he was born December 2, 1921. He indicated on his attestation papers he was born in 1920, but his birth certificate confirms he was born December 1, 1919. Before enlistment, Telles worked on the family farm, and occasionally on his brother’s truck as a helper. It was noted on enlistment that Telesphore and Emilie (Holden) Comeau (who were like Telles’ grand parents to him) gave him their farm, “[and that they] are now 75 and 80.” On the military file of Telles, the officer noted, “Here is a boy that longs for a return to his farm […].” Having enlisted in April, Telles was assigned to Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (CIBTC) No. 60 (Camp 60) in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia for basic training on April 9, 1942, and attached to the Advanced Infantry (Rifle) Training Centre No. 14 (14 AITC) at Aldershot in Kings County, NS, on June 11, 1942, for advanced training. He transferred to the 15th Field Company of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) on June 30, 1942. Stationed in Quebec, he was admitted to the Quebec Military Hospital on October 28, 1943, and transferred from that hospital to the St. Sacrement Hospital on October 29, 1943, where he died November 10, 1943, of kidney failure (uremia and sub-acute nephritis). His body was returned to Nova Scotia from Quebec, and he is interred at the (New) Saint Bernard Cemetery, behind the Saint-Bernard Catholic Church in Clare.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave