"MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE. MOTHER"
Qualified Driver I/C (Tracked) on April 1, 1943.
Wounded on July 8, 1944 as Lance Corporal with the North Shore Regiment in Capriquet, France (just East of Cean).
Back to France on September 6, 1944.
Re-assigned to the North Shore Regiment on September 19, 1944.
Killed in action when the Bren Carrier he was in with Driver Frederick Merlin Theriault hit a mine.
One brother Roy A. Vautour (Theriault) Overseas.
The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment war diary reports on October 17, 1944:
Mollekot MR145067 (Crossroad Mollekotweg/ Vrijedijk, IJzendijke, Netherlands).
Weather: Scattered clouds and showers.
Battalion stayed in present positions, while Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and Le Regiment de la Chaudiere, completed their phases.
At 2000 hrs, "A" Company sent a patrol to MR141088 (Crossing Westdijk/ Isabellaweg, IJzendijke, Netherlands, at monument for the Engineers). At 2145 hrs, patrol reached objective and came under small arms fire from MR128088 (Crossing Mollekotweg/ Watervlietseweg/ Oudemansdijk, IJzendijke, Netherlands).