Raymond Lucien Lajeunesse

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Biography

Raymond Lucien was born in 1924.^[1] He was the son of Arthur Lajeunesse and Helen Robertson.

Raymond joined the Canadian Merchant Navy in 1943 as an Ordinary Seaman. He took sick with smallpox at 944 on board the ship Kildonan Park off the coast of Calcutta, India and was taken to hospital where he died on 19 Feb 1944 at he age of 19. He is buried in Lower Circular Road Cemetery, in Calcutta. ^{[2] [3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: "Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 1109 #651633 (accessed 24 November 2021)
   Raymond Lucien Joseph Lajeunesse baptism in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2. ↑ Obituary: "Canada, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current"
   The Ottawa Citizen; Publication Date: 22 Feb 1944; Publication Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/456520452/?article=313ac3df-7164-4397-b8f5-481105cb66dd&focus=0.7401402,0.38471004,0.85600126,0.56192803&xid=3355
   Ancestry ca Record 62226 #13383459 (accessed 24 November 2021)
   
3. ↑ "Canadian Merchant Navy War Dead Database", Veterans Affairs Canada, (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/merchant-navy-war-dead-registry : 10 Oct 2015) Raymond Lucien Lajeunesse/