Name: Percy Joseph Boudreau Rank: Private Service No: F/35465 Regiment/Service: Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, R.C.I.C. Date of Birth: April 28, 1920 Place of Birth: Little River Harbour, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Enlistment: February 5, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, NS Age at Enlistment: 20 Height: 5 feet, 7 inches Complexion: Dark Eyes: Blue Hair: Dark Brown Weight: 129 lbs Trade: Fisherman Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Bernard Joseph Boudreau (Father) Little River Harbour, Yarmouth Co., Date of Death: August 14, 1944 Age at Death: 24 Cemetery: Bretteville -Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery (Calvados, France) Grave Reference: XIII. B. 4. The 15th name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial Commemorated on page 254 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 28 Percy was the son of Bruno Joseph Boudreau (1893-1973) and Charlotte Anne (Gaudet) Boudreau (1895- 1974), of Little River Harbour, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia. Percy was the brother of Dennis Emile Boudreau (1913-1994) Vernon Alfred Boudreau (1917-1993), Marion Anne Boudreau (1919-2008), Bruno Ralph Boudreau (1922-2007), Thomas John Boudreau (1923-1991), Gerald Irvin Boudreau, and Evangeline Mary Boudreau (1914-2004). On official military records his father’s name is recorded as ‘Bernard’. Percy’s brothers, Dennis Emile, Bruno Ralph and Thomas John also served during WWII. Bruno served with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and Thomas served with Canadian Forestry Corps. Percy disembarked in France on July 3, 1944 and was killed in action on August 14, 1944. He was buried on August 16, 1944, in a temporary grave in an orchard near the village of Clair Tizon, approximately six and a half miles north-west of Falaise, France, in the immediate vicinity in which his death occurred. His remains were reburied at Brettville-Sur-Laize in 1946.