They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 

Joseph Wilbrod Guy Laflamme

 

Ordinary Signalman, V3370, RCNVR

 

Born: 16 Jun 1918, St. Francois, Beauce, Quebec

 

Died: 07 Sep 1942 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

LAFLAMME, Joseph Wilbrod Guy, O/Sig, V3370, RCNVR, MPK - 07 Sep 1942, HMCS RACCOON - Son of Wilbrod and Albertine Laflamme, of St. Romuald, Quebec.

 

O/Sig Laflamme died when his ship, HMCS RACCOON, which was on convoy escort in the St. Lawrence River off the Gaspé Peninsula, was hit and sunk by two torpedoes from U165. All 37 hands were lost.

 

Ships served in:

QUEBEC DIVISION RCNVR - Enlisted 22 Mar 1939. Commenced Active Service 09 Sep 1939 as an OS, RCNVR

HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 17 Sep 1939 as an OS, RCNVR

HMCS BRAD D'OR - Drafted to BRAS D'OR 01 Nov 1939 as an OS, RCNVR

HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 03 Jan 1940 as an OS, RCNVR

HMCS BRAD D'OR - Drafted to BRAS D'OR 05 Jan 1940  as an OS, RCNVR

HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 05 Feb 1940 as an OS, RCNVR

* Rated O/Sig 15 Mar 1940

HMCS ALACHASSE - Drafted to ALACHASSE 07 May 1940 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 31 Jan 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS VENTURE - Drafted to VENTURE 03 Feb 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS CHALEUR II - Drafted to CHALEUR for Port War Signal Station Quebec 01 Apr 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS CHALEUR - Drafted to CHALEUR 14 May 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS CHALEUR II - Drafted to CHALEUR 20 Nov 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 13 Dec 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS VENTURE - Drafted to VENTURE 15 Dec 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS FREDERICTON - Drafted to FREDERICTON 19 Dec 1941 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

HMCS RACCOON - Drafted to RACCOON 14 Apr 1942 as an O/Sig, RCNVR

 

JL01

JL02

JL03

JL04

(JL01) Attestation Form

(JL02) Record of Service

(JL03) Official declaration of Missing Presumed Dead

(JL04) Letter to O/Sig Laflamme's father

 


 

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