Cpl. A50284,  [Kent Regt. A102385]; transferred to  Lincoln and Wellington Regt. N of K: Mrs. Yvonne (wife nee Torck) Mailloux of R. R. # 2 Tilbury (Jeanette’s Creek), Yvonne worked as a government inspector at a local munitions plant. Ben was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arsene Mailloux of Centre St. Tilbury. Prior to his enlistment he was a grocery and meat-market salesman. He had an older brother Eugene who was with the Canadian army at Greenwood, NS.

Ben enlisted in Windsor, ON. in July 1942, trained at Chatham BSC No. 12, Strathroy and Camp Ipperwash.  Cpl. Mailoux was 31 years old  when he went overseas with reinforcements  December of 1943 after a year and a half of training at Chatham, Stratford and Camp Ipperwash.

In a letter home “Somewhere in France” he informed his wife that he had been injured in the arm on 8 June by a robot plane in England and had been five weeks recovering.

Age 31 years a native of Tilbury Cpl. Mailloux was listed as “missing” on 2 August, 1944 he was later reported to be a POW. This was confirmed by Cpl. Eddie Duplessis, a POW in Germany from the Dieppe raid in 1942 in a letter to his mother. “Ben Mailoux from Tilbury is here with us. Tell his mother please.” 

Ben was liberated in May of 1945. An accident in England delayed his return to Canada. Reported returning from overseas aboard the troop ship Ile de France, expected in Halifax, NS. second week of April, 1945. CDN4/08/45.

Returning on the Duchess of Bedford”, expected to arrive at Halifax, NS. 9^th September, 1945.  CDN 10/09/45. Reported  being welcomed back to Chatham from overseas duty by Aldermen George Kerr KC., A. G. Goodman and Bert Joyce also by Rehabilitation Officer William Foreman and Alex Copeland for the Civil Reception Committee along with hundreds of citizens. CDN 12/09/45.

 

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Sources

KCFA, CDN, ST.

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