Guédry and Petitpas Military Who Have Paid the Ultimate Sacrifice - WWI, WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War (With An Update on WWI)

by R. Martin Guidry

For generations a minority of American and Canadian men and women have joined our militaries to ensure the protection and freedoms for the majority of us. A relatively small number of those serving our countries have given their lives for the ideals of our nations. Depending on the sources of information, the numbers below vary slightly.

The official periods of each war are:
World War I
Canada: 4 Aug 1914 - 11 Nov 1918
U.S.: 6 Apr 1917 - 11 Nov 1918
World War I officially ended on 28 Jun 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles

World War II
Canada: 10 Sep 1939 - 15 Aug 1945
U.S.: 7 Dec 1941 - 2 Sep 1945
World War II officially ended on 20 Apr 1952 with the Treaty of San Francisco

Korean War
Canada: 15 Aug 1950 - 27 Jul 1953
U.S.: 27 Jun 1950 - 27 Jul 1953
Korean War has never ended, but an armistice was signed on 27 Jun 1953 that ended combat

Vietnam War Canada: Did not participate in war U.S.: 1 Nov 1955 - 30 Apr 1975
The Paris Peace Accords signed 27 Jan 1973 ended the Vietnam War and initiated a cease fire in Vietnam, but of the signatories only the U.S. honored the cease fire.

Approximately 620,000 Canadians served during World War I and 67,000 died from combat and non-combat causes (a 10.8% death rate of Canadians in WWI). At the outset of WWI, the Canadian population was 8,000,000; therefore, the Canadian military comprised 7.8% of the population.

Approximately 4,735,000 Americans served in World War I and 116,700 died from combat and non-combat related causes (a 1.3% death rate of Americans in WWI). The population of the United States at the start of WWI was 103,300,00; therefore, the American military represented 4.5% of the total population.

Canadian military strength during World War II was 1,100,000 of which 45,300 died from combat and non-combat-related causes (a 4.1% death rate of Canadians in WWII). At the start of WWII, the Canadian population was 11,300,000, thus those serving their nation in WWII represented 9.7% of the total Canadian population.

Approximately 16,113,000 Americans served in World War II and 405,400 died from combat and non-combat related causes (a 2.5% death rate of Americans in WWII). The American population at the start of WWII was 133,400,000, thus Americans serving in their military represented 12% of the total American population.

The Canadian military strength during the Korean War was 104,000 of which 26,700 Canadians served in theater. A total of 516 Canadians died from combat and non-combat related causes (a 0.5% death rate of among the total Canadian military and a 1.9% death in theater during the Korean War). At the start of the Korean War, the Canadian population was 13,807,000, thus those serving their nation in the Korean War represented 0.75% of the total Canadian population (in theater servicemen represented 0.19%).

The U.S. military strength during the Korean War was 5,720,000 of which 1,789,000 served in theater. Of the total military strength 54,246 military died from combat and non-combat related causes (a 0.95% death rate of Americans in the Korean War). Of the deaths 36,574 were in theater from combat and non-combat related causes (2.0% death rate in theater). The American population at the start of the Korean War was 151,326,000, thus Americans serving in their military represented 3.8% of the total American population (in theater servicemen represented 1.2%).

Canada did not officially participate in the Vietnam War ; however, it did contribute peacekeeping forces in 1973 to assist in enforcing the Paris Peace Accords. Some Canadian private companies provide war materiel to the U. S. government. Additionally, at least 30,000 Canadians volunteered to serve in the U.S armed forces during the Vietnam War with about 12,000 deployed in a combat role in theater. Of these 147 died or were reported missing in Vietnam representing 1.2% of the total Canadians serving in combat in theater. During the Vietnam War, the Canadian population was 21,435,000, thus Canadians serving in theater during the Vietnam War represented 0.06% of the total Canadian population.

The U.S. military strength during the Vietnam War was 8,744,000 of which 3,403,000 served in theater. Of the total military strength 90,220 military died from combat and non-combat related causes (a 1.0% death rate of Americans in the Vietnam War). Of the deaths 58,220 were in theater from combat and non-combat related causes (1.7% death rate in theater). The American population during the Vietnam War was 203,392,000, thus Americans serving in their military represented 4.3% of the total American population (in theater servicemen represented 1.7%).

November 11 ^th each year in Canada is Remembrance Day in which the country honors all those who serve and have served their nation's defense.

The United States Has Three Special Days Set Aside To Honor Those Who Serve In Its Military:
Armed Forces Day - Honoring Men And Women Currently Serving In The Military (3 ^rd Saturday Of May)
Memorial Day - Honoring Men & Women Who Have Died While Serving In The Military (Last Monday Of May)
Veterans Day - Honoring All Military Veterans (November 11 ^th )

Below are those in the Guédry and Petitpas families who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the Korean War and Vietnam War with an update on some additional persons who died in World War I.

[Note that we have included any person serving in the military that died during the timeframe of the war regardless if they died from combat, disease or another reason. They were serving their nation at the time of their death.]

If you know of others, please let me know at guidryrmartin@gmail.com

WORLD WAR I (With an update)

CANADIAN ARMY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWI

NOVA SCOTIA

PVT Ralph Joseph Pettipas (Canadian Army) (3180676) - East Chezzetcook, NS (DNB - 23 Oct 1918)
(Died of tuberculosis at East Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia)
(Canadian Expeditionary Force; Canadian Infantry - Joined on 13 May 1918)
(Saint Genevieve Catholic Cemetery; East Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia; Plot R.8)
(Commemorated on Page 485 of the First World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of David Pettipas & Maria Janet Richard Pettipas; Born 4 Jun 1894)

U. S. ARMY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWI

LOUISIANA

PVT Alexander Guidry (U. S. Army) (1618862) - Church Point (DNBO - 6 Oct 1918)
(Died of lobar pneumonia at Camp Beauregard, LA one month after being inducted) (17th Infantry Division; 5th Infantry Regiment; Development Battalion; Company C)
(The 17th Infantry Division was a replacement and school division and did not go overseas during the war. It was at Camp Beauregard during the summer and fall of 1918.)
(Son of Palemon Guidry & Emma Daigle; Born 16 Dec 1894)

PVT Cleveland Guidry (U. S. Army) (1588047) - Carencro (DNBO - 5 Nov 1918)
(Committed suicide by cutting throat at Camp Beauregard, LA 6 months after being inducted)
(39th Infantry Division; 156th Infantry Regiment; 1st Development Battalion; Company B)
(The 39th Infantry Division did not deploy to go to France until very late in war.)
(Born 19 Jul 1888)

PVT Leo Guidry (U. S. Army) (1618814) - Church Point (DNBO - 11 Oct 1918)
(Died of lobar pneumonia at Camp Beauregard, LA 35 days after being inducted)
(17th Infantry Division; 5th Infantry Regiment; Development Battalion; Company C)
(The 17th Infantry Division was a replacement and school division and did not go overseas during the war. It was at Camp Beauregard during the summer and fall of 1918.)
(Son of Joseph Guidry & Marie Richard) (Born 1 Aug 1897)

PVT Louis Guidry (U. S. Army) (1618626) - Carencro (DNBO - 8 Oct 1918)
(Died of lobar pneumonia at Camp Beauregard, LA 32 days after being inducted)
(17th Infantry Division; 5th Infantry Regiment; Development Battalion; Company C)
(The 17th Infantry Division was a replacement and school division and did not go overseas during the war. It was at Camp Beauregard during the summer and fall of 1918.)
(Son of Emile Guidry & Mathilde Poitier) (Born 16 Dec 1896)

PVT Philip Guidry (U. S. Army) (1614956) - Sunset (DNB - 16 Oct 1918)
(Died of disease in France; likely contracted while working on Engineer Dumps of the First Army at Souhesme-la-Grande, Dombasle-en-Argonne, Aubreville, Les Islettes and Rattentout, France)
(815th Pioneer Infantry Regiment; Company G; American Expeditionary Force)
(This regiment was responsible for repairing roads with First Army Engineers)
(Husband of Mary Guidry; Born 1 Jun 1883)

MASSACHUSETTS

CPL Edward C. Petitpas (U. S. Army) (155539) - New Bedford (DNB - 8 Oct 1918)
(Died of Lobar Pneumonnia in France; Initially buried in American Cemetery, Souilly Meuse, France; Grave No. 101, Section B, Plot 2)
(1st Infantry Division; 1st Engineer Regiment; Company E; American Expeditionary Force)
(Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery; Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France; H.27.6)
(Son of Camille Petitpas & Marie Domitilde Fougère Petitpas; Born 20 May 1890)

PVT Joseph Alpide (Alfred) Petitpas (U.S. Army) (3193080) - Cambridge (DOW - 1 Nov 1918)
(Died of wounds received in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in France; Initially buried in American Cemetery; Haumont-pres-Samogneax, Meuse, France; Grave No. 14)
(79th Infantry Division; 314th Infantry Regiment; Company E; American Expeditionary Force)
(Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery; Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France; C.25.1)
(Son of Francis Petitpas & Olive Lapierre Petitpas; Born 29 Jul 1891)

WORLD WAR II

CANADIAN ARMY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWII

NOVA SCOTIA

Rifleman Emery Louis Geddry (Canadian Army) (F/8819) - St. Alphonse (KIA - 28 Sep 1944)
(Fighting from a house during the battle for Calais, he was seriously wounded from shelling and taken to the Regimental Aid Post; however, he died on the way to the Aid Post. Initially buried at a Catholic Church cemetery in Coquelles, France)
(3rd Canadian Infantry Division; 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade; 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion; The Regina Rifle Regiment)
(Calais Canadian War Cemetery; Leubringhen, Pas-de-Calais, France; 7.D.5)
(Commemorated on Page 314 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of Joseph Isaac Geddry & Françoise Marie Dugas; Born 10 Jan 1922)

PVT Leonard Francis Pettipas (Canadian Army) (F/45042) - Linwood (MIA - 14 Sep 1944)
(Wounded in head while manning machine gun in a slit trench during the battle to cross the Leopold Canal in northern Belgium; he was taken to a first aid station and then reported missing in action)
(4th Canadian Armoured Division, 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 1st Battalion, The Algonquin Regiment, RCIC) [Nova Scotia Highlanders]
(Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery; Groesbeek Memorial; Groesbeek, Berg en Dal, Gelderland, Netherlands; Panel 11)
(Commemorated on Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of Oscar Leo Pettipas & Harriet Jane DeCoste Pettipas DeWolfe; Born 27 Jan 1920)

LCPL Wilfred Benvie Pettipas (Canadian Army) (F/77522) - Lourdes (KIA - 2 Sep 1944)
(Died from a compound fracture of right femur; Wounded at 8 AM, but could not evacuate from battlefield because of enemy action. Arrived at Command Post at 1330 hours with severe blood loss; Plasma given, but died at 1430 hours; Initially buried near Tomba di Pesaro, Italy in Row C, Grave 1)
(Died during the battles for Tomba di Pesaro and Gradara, Italy in the Mediterranean Theater)
(5th Canadian (Armoured) Division; 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade; Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment, RCIC (1st Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Battalion))
(Gradara War Cemetery; Gradara, Pesaro, Italy; Plot I,H,1)
(Commemorated on Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of William Joseph Pettipas & Sara Kennedy Pettipas; Born 10 Feb 1922)

SSGT William Howard Pettipas (Canadian Army) (P/10348) - Halifax (DNB - 10 Apr 1940)
(Died at Halifax, Nova Scotia of cancer of the rectum)
(Royal Canadian Engineers) (RCE, CASF); No. 6 Detachment
(Sackville Gate of Heaven Cemetery; Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia; Section 4, Plot J, Grave 54)
(Commemorated on Page 17 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance) (Son of Howard Pettipas & Rose Manette Pettipas; Husband of Dorothy Florence Duncan Pettipas; Born 1899)

NEW BRUNSWICK

*PVT Emile Petitpas (Canadian Army) (G/23545) - Shediac Bridge (KIA - 8 Jul 1944)
(Died in Battle of Carpiquet during Operation Charnwood advancing into the northern parts of Caen, France)
(3rd Canadian Division; 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade; 1st Battalion; North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, RCIC)
(Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery; Reviers, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; Plot XI.C.4)
(Commemorated on Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of George Alfred Petitpas & Sylvia Fougère Petitpas; Born 7 May 1922)

PVT James Joseph (Joseph Jacques) Petitpas (Canadian Army) (G/18558) - Westmorland (KIA - 18 Sep 1944)
(Died in Italy during the battle for Coriano Ridge and assault on the Ausa River)
(1st Canadian Infantry Division; 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade; Carleton and York Regiment, RCIC; 16th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, Royal Canadian Artillery)
(Coriano Ridge War Cemetery; Coriano, Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Plot IX.C.10)
(Commemorated on Page 416 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of Dominique (Domenique) Petitpas & Précile (Priscilla) Babineau Petitpas; Husband of Marie (Mary) Vénérante Caissie Petitpas; Born 13 Mar 1920)

QUÉBEC

SGT Raymond Edmund Petitpas (Canadian Army) (P/48861) - Québec City (KIA - 30 Jul 1943)
(Missing in action on 27 Jul 1943 near Catenanuova, Enna, Sicily, Italy; Body recovered on 30 Jul 1943; Initially buried near the Dittaino River southwest of Catenanuova; Killed during fighting for town of Agira)
(1st Canadian Infantry Division; 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade; Royal 22nd Regiment, RCIC)
(Agira Canadian War Cemetery; Agira, Enna, Sicily, Italy; Plot D.D.433)
(Commemorated on Page 203 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of Mederic Edmund Petitpas & Louise Bertha Lawrence Petitpas; Born 6 Oct 1922)

CANADIAN NAVY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWII

NOVA SCOTIA

STOKER Guy Dennis Pettipas (Canadian Navy) (A/631) - East Chezzetcook (MIA - 19 Oct 1940)
(Died at sea with foundering of HMCS Bras D'Or off Anticosti Island east of Gaspé in early morning hours of 19 Oct 1940 while escorting Romanian merchant ship; No survivors ever found)
(Royal Canadian Naval Reserve; H.M.C.S. Bras D'Or minesweeper)
(Halifax Memorial; Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Panel 6, Canada)
(Commemorated on Page 17 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance)
(Son of Dennis Richard Pettipas & Emma Lavinia Roast Pettipas and husband of Mary Edith Horne Pettipas; Born 4 Feb 1913)

CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWII

Fireman Louis Pettipas (Canadian Merchant Navy) - (Died - 21 Jul 1945)
(Canadian Merchant Navy; SS Victoria Park (Montréal; Steamship used to transport cargo across Atlantic Ocean))
(Commemorated on Page 210 of the Merchant Navy War Book of Remembrance)

U. S. ARMY & U. S. ARMY AIR FORCE PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWII

IDAHO

TEC4 Ila Ruth Lombard Labine (U.S. Army) (A-910105) - Moscow (DNB - 23 Oct 1944)
(Died in U. S. Army hospital in Italy after being crushed by falling rocks in a landslide while touring/climbing Mt. Vesuvius. She was struck by a boulder on 22 Oct 1944)
(4623rd SU-WAC Detachment; Headquarters Company [WAC - Women's Army Corps]; She served as an administrative replacement for soldiers sent to combat lines)
(Woodlawn Cemetery; Nashua, NH; Section I, Lot 059A)
(Daughter of George Lombard & Mae M. Campbell Lombard; Ex-Wife of Louis Urgel Labine; Born 29 May 1899)

LOUISIANA

PFC Ambrose Guidry (U.S. Army) (38185634) - Lake Arthur (DNB - 14 Nov 1944)
(Died after long illness; Adenocarcinoma (colon cancer): Admitted to hospital Sep 1943; Discharged from military on 27 Apri 1944)
(802nd Field Artillery Battalion; Headquarters Battery at Fort McClelland, AL)
(Andrus Cove Cemetery; Lake Arthur, LA)
(Son of Arthur Guidry & Lea Cormier Guidry; Born 10 Mar 1905)

PVT Dalton Paul Guidry (U.S. Army) (38258168) - New Iberia (DNB - 28 Mar 1944)
(Injured at camp near Gaizza, Italy on 27 Mar 1944 when rifle he was cleaning discharged)
(U. S. Seventh Army; 2nd Replacement Depot)
(Sicily-Rome American Cemetery; Nettuno, Italy; Plot F, Row 12, Grave 37)
(Son of Madio Guidry and Josephine Blanchard Guidry of New Iberia, LA; Born 5 Feb 1921)

PVT Dennis Guidry (U.S. Army) (38483122) - Basile (KIA - 27 Nov 1943, Missing at sea)
(HMT Rohna, KMF-26, sunk off African coast by German guided missile)
(853rd Engineer Battalion; Aviation - U. S. Army Air Forces)
(Tablets of the Missing at North Africa American Cemetery; Carthage, Tunisia)
(Son of Edmond Guidry and Celemine Ashford Guidry; Born 23 Sep 1915)

TEC4 Donald F. Guidry (U.S. Army) (34003222) - Golden Meadow (KIA - 24 Mar 1945)
(Died during Battle of the Bulge; France; European Theater)
(17th Airborne Division; 3rd Battalion; 513th Infantry Regiment; Parachute Unit)
(Magnolia Cemetery; Houma, LA)
(Son of Asay Desire Guidry and Louise Marie Aycock Guidry; Born 12 Oct 1918)

PVT Eustis Guidry (U. S. Army) (34030081) - Kaplan (DNB - 22 Jul 1944)
(Died from Hemopericardium caused by object cutting or piercing heart)
(45th Infantry Division; 1st Infantry Battalion; 157th Infantry Regiment; Medical Detachment)
(Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery; Kaplan, LA)
(Son of Theodore Guidry & Mrs. Bazeline Marceaux Guidry; Born 14 Feb 1921)

PVT Howard Joseph Guidry (U.S. Arm) (38651891) - Duplessis (KIA 12 Nov 1944)
(Died during the battle to take the city of Metz)
(5th Infantry Division; 10th Infantry Regiment)
(Lorraine American Cemetery; St. Avold, Moselle, Lorraine, France; C.16.55)
(Son of Oneal J. Guidry & Anisette Gautreau Guidry; Born 20 Sep 1924)

PVT Joseph Chester Guidry (U.S. Army) (38483731) - Arnaudville (DOW - 27 Oct 1944)
(Died in Italy of wounds received in battle at Arracourt, France)
(26th Infantry Division; 101st Infantry Regiment; Company A)
(St. Francis Regis Catholic Cemetery; Arnaudville, LA)
(Relative of Theodule Lormand and Marie Olympe Olivier Lormand; Born 3 Aug 1923)

PFC Lawrence Guidry (U.S. Army) (38657527) - Lafayette (DOW - 2 Apr 1945)
(Died of wounds received during Operation Varsity near Munster, Germany)
(3rd Battalion; 17th Airborne Division; 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment)
[St. John the Evangelist Catholic Cemetery; Section 17, Tomb 103.0; Lafayette, LA]
(Son of Marcel Guidry & Marie Anatile Trahan Guidry and husband of Ella Mae Guidry; Born 14 Dec 1921)

SSGT Levy Alexander Guidry Jr. (U.S. Army) (34230517) - Cut Off (KIA - 17 Aug 1944)
[Died during Battle for the Falaise Gap and Argentan Pocket; France; European Theater]
(3rd Armored Division; 36th Infantry Regiment; Company F)
(Cheramie Cemetery; Galliano, LA)
(Son of Leavy Bernard Guidry and Eleanora Justine Plaisance Guidry; Born 25 Oct 1918)

PVT Louis Guidry (U.S. Army) (34076435) - Rayne (DNB - 9 Apr 1943)
(Illness - Leukemia; Treatment - Lympadenectomy)
(Died at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, Georgia hospital after 3-month stay)
(29th Infantry Division; Company D)
(St. Peter and St. Paul Catholic Cemetery; Scott, LA)
(Son of Ernest Guidry and Emelie Morvant Guidry; Born 17 Jun 1920)

PFC Morrison Raymond Guidry (U.S. Army) (38652376) - Cut Off (KIA - 29 Dec 1944)
(Died rescuing 101st Airborne Division besieged at Bastogne in Belgium; European Theater)
(80th Infantry Division; 1st Battalion; 317th Infantry Regiment; Headquarters Company)
(Lange Callahan Cemetery; Cut Off, LA)
(Son of Jean Joseph Guidry Jr. and Arthemise Curole Guidry; Born 14 Jan 1923)

SSGT Olin Guidry (U.S. Army) (14016852) - Carencro (DNB - 10 May 1944)
(Died at Cambridge, England as a result of an accident during a blackout in England)
(88th Engineering Battalion; Corps of Engineers)
(St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery; Carencro, LA)
(Son of Leo Guidry & Cecilia Simoneaux Guidry; Born 10 Sep 1915)

PVT Richard J. Guidry (U.S. Army) (38489057) - Franklin (KIA - 9 Aug 1944)
(Died during closing of the Falaise Gap in northern France; European Theater)
(9th Infantry Division; 60th Infantry Regiment)
(Brittany American Cemetery; St. James, France; Plot J, Row 5, Grave 3)
(Son of Lovincy Jean Guidry & Marie Achee Guidry and husband of Lillian Guilbeau Guidry; Born 25 Oct 1915)

PFC Warren Wadsworth Guidry (U.S. Army) (38484173) - Opelousas (DOW - 30 Dec 1944)
(Died of wounds received in the defense of the crossings of the Meuse River at Givet, Dinant and Namur in Dec 1944 as part of the Battle of the Bulge)
(398th Engineer General Service Regiment; Corps of Engineers)
(Luxembourg American Cemetery; Hamm, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Plot D.4.16)
(St. Landry Catholic Cemetery; Opelousas, LA; Section 9)
(Son of Russell Edwin Guidry & Lillian Tatman Guidry; Born 13 Nov 1923)

TSGT Wilfred Cornielous Guidry (U.S. Army Air Force) (14046598) - Lake Arthur (KIA - 14 Jan 1945)
(Unaccounted for remains; Missing in Action at Sea; His bomber had to ditch in the ocean near Japan due to damage inflicted during war); (Left Mariana Islands with a target of Nagoya, Japan on a bombing mission; Shot down by enemy aircraft; Was in a B-29 named “Uncle Tom's Cabin”; Crew of 11, all lost)
(498th Bomber Group, Very Heavy; 874th Bomber Squadron; U. S. Army Air Forces; Radio Operator)
(Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial; Honolulu, Hawaii; Courts of the Missing, Court 7)
(Son of Joseph A. Guidry Sr. & Loretta D. Brinkhaus Guidry; Husband of Mrs. Mary A. Guidry; Born 30 Aug 1921)

PVT Wilson Luke Guidry (U.S. Army) (38267481) - Breaux Bridge (DNB - 29 Feb 1944)
(Died from Hemorrhage after falling from same level at Barnstaple, England)
(146th Engineering Combat Battalion; Company A; Corps of Engineers)
(St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery; Breaux Bridge, LA; Section C, Row 3)
(Son of Albin Guidry & Drazella Thibodeaux Guidry; Born 19 Apr 1915)

PFC Wilson W. Guidry (U. S. Army) (38486857) - Kaplan (DOW - 4 Apr 1945)
(On 3 Apr 1945 struck by artillery shrapnel transporting supplies from battalion headquarters to his unit in the hills above Kaplintalan, Luzon, Philippines; Attended by medic and transferred to the 63rd Portable Surgical Hospital in Dig Dig, Luzon. Died 4 Apr 1945 and initially buried at USAF Cemetery at Santa Barbara, Luzon, Philippines)
(25th Infantry Division; 161st Infantry Regiment; Company L; 3rd Platoon; Rifleman)
(Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery; Kaplan, LA)
(Son of Numa Guidry & Azelia Guidry Guidry; Born 3 Oct 1921)

MAINE

PVT Charles Edward Pettipas (U.S. Army) (20143382) - New Gloucester (KIA - 25 Jul 1943)
(Died of bullet wound in shoulder in Southwest Pacific at Island of New Georgia in Solomon Islands)
(43rd Infantry Division; 103rd Infantry Regiment; Enlisted in Maine National Guard)
(Manila American Cemetery; Fort William McKinley, Manila, Philippines; Plot A, Row 4, Grave 138)
(Son of Joseph Pettipas & Annie Woodford Pettipas & Husband of Lillian G. Pitts Pettipas; Born 13 Dec1922)

PFC Emery R. Grivois (U.S. Army) (31317659) - Grand Isle (DNB - 27 Jun 1945)
(Died of a non-battle injury in Europe)
(81st Engineer Combat Battalion; Company C)
(Long Island National Cemetery; East Farmingdale, Suffolk County New York; Plot J, 16233)
(Originally interred in Hamm, Luxembourg and then returned for repatriation on 29 Apr 1949)
(Son of Clovis Grivois & Anna Marie Agnes Sirois Grivois; Born 18 Jul 1924)

MASSACHUSETTS

PVT George E. Petitpas (U.S. Army Air Force) (11020713) - Cambridge (DNB/POW - 15 May 1942)
(Died from malaria; Prisoner of war at Camp O'Donnell in the Philippines; Grave located in 1947)
(20th Air Base Group; Headquarters Squadron)
(Manila American Cemetery; Fort William McKinley, Manila, Philippines; Plot L, Row 15, Grave 112)
(Son of Gilbert Petitpas & Marie Amanda Poirier Petitpas; Born 1917)

TEXAS

2LT John W. Guidry (U.S. Army) (02001823) - Orange County (KIA - 28 Apr 1945)
(Died in Italy)
(Saint Augustine Catholic Cemetery; Basile, LA; Section B, Row 6, No. 7)
(Son of Manville Guidry & Lorice Debarge Guidry; Born 19 Oct 1919)

U. S. NAVY, U. S. MARINE CORPS & U. S. COAST GUARD PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN WWII

LOUISIANA

AVIATION RADIOMAN 3nd CLASS (ARM3c) Clifford Guidry (USNR) (06448710) - Lafayette (KIA - 17 Jan 1944)
(Killed in PBY-5A airplane crash into Massacre Bay off Attu Island, Alaska; Plane exploded on crashing; All of crew killed)
(VP-43 Patrol Squadron; Naval Air Station; Attu; Alaska; PBY-5A)
(Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial; Honolulu, Hawaii; Courts of the Missing; Court 3)
(Son of Marcel Guidry & Marie Anatile Trahan Guidry; Born 9 Jan 1924)

PFC Elward James Guidry (USMCR) (915230) - Houma (KIA - 13 Mar 1945)
(Died at Iwo Jima, Ogasawara-shicho, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan)
(5th Marine Division; 2nd Battalion; 28th Marine Regiment; Company E)
(St. Francis de Sales Catholic Cemetery #1; Houma, LA)
(Son of Sampson J. Guidry & Olga Duplantis Guidry; Born 10 Jul 1925)

AVIATION RADIOMAN 3rd CLASS (ARM3c) Jasper Guidry (USNR) (6448713) - Lafayette (DNBO - 26 Jul 1943)
(Died in airplane crash during routine training flight at Cecil Field, Jacksonville Naval Air Station; Jacksonville, Florida)
(Holy Mary Mother of God Catholic Cemetery; Lafayette, LA; Block 2, Plot F, Grave 30)
(Son of Andrew Guidry & Alba Lagneaux Guidry; Born 5 Apr 1924)

SIGNALMAN 3rd CLASS (SM3c) Jerry Maurice Guidry (USNR) (6453687) - Lafayette (DOW - 18 May 1944)
(Died of wounds received at Tumbolt Bay, New Guinea in Southwest Pacific)
(Served on the USS Blue Ridge (AGC-2) of Seventh Amphibious Force & it was the Flagship of Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey)
(St. John the Evangelist Catholic Cemetery; Lafayette, LA; Section 24, Tomb 65.0)
(Son of Maurice Homer Guidry & Mamie Guidry Guidry; Born 22 Aug 1924)

SEAMAN 2nd CLASS (S2c) Joseph Warren Guidry (USNR) (8473781) - Duson (MIA - 21 Feb 1945)
(Died off the coast of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific when USS Bismarck Sea, while supporting landings on Iwo Jima, sank on 21 Feb 1945 after two Japanese kamikaze attacks killing 318 crewmen)
(Served on USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95 escort carrier; Composite Squadron 86))
(St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery #2; Rayne, LA)
(Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial; Honolulu, Hawaii; Courts of the Missing; Court 3)
(Son of Venia Guidry & Etha Castille Guidry; Born 20 Jan 1925)

GUNNERY SGT (GySgt) Leo Adam Guidry (USMCR) (331163) - Houma (DOW - 10 May 1945)
(Wounded 5 May 1945 on Okinawa; Died on 10 May 1945)
(1st Marine Division; 7th Marine Regiment; 2nd Battalion; Company E)
(Baton Rouge National Cemetery; Baton Rouge, LA; Section 10, Site 8)
(Name on plaque at Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan)
(Son of Jack W. Guidry & Lola M. Daigle Guidry; Born 16 Apr 1911)

PFC Louis Benjamin Guidry Jr. (USMCR) (873954) - Baton Rouge (KIA - 9 Aug 1945)
(Died at Okinawa)
(6th Marine Division; 15th Marine Regiment; 1st Battalion; Battery B)
(Baton Rouge National Cemetery; Baton Rouge, LA; Section 14, Site 13)
(Name on plaque at Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan)
(Son of Louis Benjamin Guidry Sr. & Tessie Pearl Heil Guidry; Husband of Mrs. Colleen Durham Guidry; Born 22 Aug 1924)

CPL Merrick Samuel Guidry (USMC) (271807) - Lafayette (KIA - 2 May 1945)
(Died at Okinawa)
(1st Marine Division; 1 Marine Regiment; 1st Battalion; Company B)
(St. John the Evangelist Catholic Cemetery; Lafayette, LA; Section 12, Tomb 50.0)
(Name on plaque at Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan)
(Son of Junius J. Guidry & Lydia Bourque Guidry; Husband of Dorothy Stutes Guidry; Daughter is Miss Dorothy Marlin Guidry; Born 21 Oct 1918)

* Marie Clements of Shediac Bridge, New Brunswick - a Blue Star mother seven times over. She first married Laurent Petitpas and later married Jude Fougère. Seven of her sons served in the Canadian military during WWII: Georges Alfred Petitpas, Jean Guillaume (William) Petitpas, Benoit Petitpas. Vital Fougère, Armand Fougère, Howard Fougère and Jude Fougère. None were lost during the war. One grandson, Emile Petitpas, did die during WWII as described above.

KOREAN WAR

CANADIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN KOREAN WAR

There were no known Guédry or Petitpas deaths within the Canadian military during the period of the Korean War

U. S. ARMY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN KOREAN WAR

LOUISIANA

SGT/CPL Joseph Guidry (U.S. Army) (18275404) - Marrero (POW/KIA - 3 Jul 1951)
(Captured 12 Jul 1950 while fighting near Chochiwon, South Korea. Forced to march to North Korea on the “Tiger Death March” to the Apex Prison Camps. Died of exposure, exhaustion and pneumonia while a POW at An-Dong, North Korea. Buried by other POWs near the prison camp. His remains have not been recovered. He was a Light Weapons Infantryman.)
(24th Infantry Division; 21st Infantry Regiment; 3rd Battalion; Company I)
(Remains have never been recovered. Memorialized on Court 6 of the Courts of the Missing; National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Honolulu Memorial); Honolulu, HI. His name also is inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.)
(Son of Paul J. Guidry Sr. & Edna St. Pierre; Born 29 Jan 1931)

TEXAS

A1C James Pierre Guidry (U.S. Air Force) (AF25996218) - Port Arthur (DNB - 20 Dec 1952)
(He was a passenger aboard a C-124 Globemaster II (#50-0100) that departed Larson Air Force Base at Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington. The plane crashed on takeoff killing 87 persons on board. The plane was departing for Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Bexar County, TX during “Operation Sleigh Ride to take military personnel and some family members home for Christmas during the Korean War. At the time it was the deadliest aviation crash in history.)
(Aerospace Defense Command; 25th Air Division; 637th Air Control and Warning Squadron)
(Calvary Cemetery; Port Arthur, Jefferson County, TX - Calvary Mausoleum, M-1, Row A, Space 28)
(Son of Wallace Pierre Guidry & Carmen Bernard; Born 29 Jun 1931)

VIETNAM WAR

CANADIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN VIETNAM WAR

There were no known Guédry or Petitpas deaths within the Canadian military during the period of the Vietnam War

U. S. ARMY PERSONNEL THAT DIED IN VIETNAM WAR

LOUISIANA

SP4 Charles Joseph Guidry (U.S. Army) (18275761) - Crowley (DNBO - 27 May 1965)
(Vehicle accident about 2 miles north of Clarksville, TN on Highway 41-A North. He was a soldier at Fort Campbell, KY just north of Clarksville, TN on the state border. Guidry overcorrected in passing a car, plunged over an embankment and hit a tree. He had served in the Occupation of Japan at the end of WWII, the Korean War and during the Vietnam War era.)
(Battery D; 320th Field Artillery Regiment. Guidry was attached to the 326th Medical Company.)
(West Crowley Cemetery; Crowley, Acadia Parish, LA)
(Son of Earl Guidry & Eva Gums; Husband of Mona M. Guidry; Born 7 July 1930)

CW2 Jules S. Guidry (U.S. Army) (436763945) - Gretna (DNBO - 7 Oct 1975)
(He was a passenger in an Army UH1-H helicopter that crashed on a training mission about 12 miles south of Fort Carson, CO post headquarters. The helicopter crashed while attempting to take off from Timber Mountain and came to rest in a steep ravine near the mountain. The cause was pilot error.)
(10th Cavalry Regiment; 1st Squadron; Troop D)
(Greenwood Cemetery; New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA; Plot 35 Acacia Venus Osier)
(Son of Joseph Guidry & Kate Rita Deaton; Born 22 Feb 1949)

SP4 Michael James Guidry (U.S. Army) (437769745) - Lafayette (KIA - 21 Aug 1971)
(Killed by M-60 fire directed at suspected enemy during night ambush 9 kilometers NNW of Quang-Ngai Airfield near Quang Ngai, Quang Ngai, South Vietnam (Military Region 1). He was a medical specialist.)
(11th Light Infantry Brigade; 1st Infantry Regiment; 3rd Battalion; Company E)
(Greenlawn Memorial Park; Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA. Memorialized on Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. on Panel 3W, Line 135.)
(Son of Rodney Ernest Guidry Sr. & Mazie Breaux; Born 16 Nov 1950)

TEXAS

PFC Wade Daniel Guidry (U.S. Army) (457940967) - Lytle (DNBO - 15 Jan 1972)
(Accidental death; Died in a fire in his house trailer caused by careless smoking. His bed clothes caught fire and then the house trailer became engulfed in flames trapping him inside. He died from asphyxiation, shock and burns over his entire body. The fire occurred about 5 miles north of El Paso, TX near Fort Bliss. He was a welder.)
(558th Artillery Battalion; Headquarters Battery)
(Lytle Community Cemetery; Lytle, Atascosa County, TX)
(Son of Francis Lee Guidry & Doris Dee Wallace) (Born 7 Jan 1951)

DNB - Died, Non-Battle (In war theater of operations)
DNBO - Died, Non-Battle (Outside war theater of operations)
DOW - Died of Wounds
KIA - Killed in Action
MIA - Missing in Action
POW - Prisoner of War
CIC - Canadian Infantry Corps (from 1942 - 29 Apr 1947)
RCIC - Royal Canadian Infantry Corps (from 30 Apr 1947) RCA - Royal Canadian Artillery
USNR - U. S. Navy Reserve