Name: Elie LeBlanc Rank: Sapper Service Number: F/64792 Service: 31 Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers Date of Birth: April 29, 1921 Place of Birth: Petit Ruisseau (Little Brook), Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: June 5, 1942 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Petit Ruisseau (Little Brook), Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 21 Height: 5 feet, 3 ½ inches Complexion: Dark Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Hazel Occupation: Labourer Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Leo LeBlanc (Brother) Date of Death: July 26, 1944 Age: 23 Cemetery: Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Calvados, France Grave: Section XIV, Row C, Grave 8 Commemorated on Page 362 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 2 Elie LeBlanc was the son of Willie O. LeBlanc (1886-1936) and Marie Neomise (Lombard) LeBlanc (1886-1936) of Little Brook in Clare, Digby Co., NS, and the brother of Sanford LeBlanc (1909-1930), Leo LeBlanc (b. 1913). Adele LeBlanc (b. 1916), Wilfred LeBlanc (1919), and Mae Marie LeBlanc (1923-2022). Elie’s father was the son of Oliver LeBlanc (1854-1933) and Francoise Gaudet LeBlanc (b. 1862). Prior to enlistment, Elie farmed at home until 1938 and worked as a labourer at the Clare Shipbuilding Company. Elie began basic training at Camp 60 on June 15, 1942, but was in hospital with the mumps in Yarmouth from July 26 to August 15, 1942. He completed his basis training September 16, 1942, and transferred to the A5 Canadian Engineer Training Centre in Petawawa, Ontario September 17, 1942, where he trained until December 10, 1942. He transferred overseas in April 1943, and embarked England July 5 and disembarked in France on July 7, 1944. Sapper Elie LeBlanc was fatally wounded on July 25, 1944. He was admitted to the 11th Canadian Field Ambulance, and then the 2nd Canadian Clearing Station the same day, and succumbed to his wounds the next day on July 26, 1944. He is interred at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. The inscription on his grave reads, “SA MEMOIRE RESTERA TOUJOURS GRAVEE DANS LES COEURS DE SES PARENTS ET AMIS” (translated, “HIS MEMORY WILL ALWAYS REMAIN ENGRAVED IN THE HEARTS OF HIS PARENTS AND FRIENDS.”

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave