Pierre T. Basque

Home Town: Pointe Des Robichaud, New Brunswick Conflict: World War II Branch: Army

  • Pierre Basque in 2010, at Wishard Dock, Pointe Des Robichaud, New Brunswick.
  • Digitized souvenir photo of Pierre Basque, copied while visiting Brighton, England as a tourist in the 1990s, from an original photograph taken in March 1946.
  • Letter sent to Pierre Basque's mother, informing her that he had been wounded overseas, December 22, 1944.
  • Diploma issued to Pierre Basque on November 11, 2000, at the Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, New Brunswick. The Diploma was issued by M. Jacques Gascuel, French Consul in Moncton, in recognition of the M. Basque's involvement in the liberation of France.
  • Medals belonging to Pierre Basque (from left to right): Royal Canadian Legion (Branch No. 45, Tracadie, New Brunswick) Ex-Officier Medal; Normandy Medal (France); Netherlands Thank You Medal. Note the inscription on the Normandy Medal, which translates as: "Wound my heart with monotonous langour". This line of poetry, from Paul Verlaine's Song of Autumn, was used as a code to signal to the French Resistance that the Normandy invasion was imminent.
Pierre Basque in 2010, at Wishard Dock, Pointe Des Robichaud, New Brunswick. Pierre Basque
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