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Musée Canadian Grenadier Guards Museum

Guardsman Basil LeBlanc (1924-2021): In World War II, Gdsm Basil LeBlanc served with the Canadian Grenadier Guards as a radioman in a Sherman tank and was wounded in the Battle of the Rhineland. He lost contact with his regiment for 70 years, but serendipity engineered a reunion and he finally received his Wound Stripe in a 2014 ceremony at regimental headquarters in Montreal. He later represented his regiment in France for the centennial of the World War I Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Guardsman Basil LeBlanc (1924-2021)

In World War II, Gdsm Basil LeBlanc served with the Canadian Grenadier Guards as a radioman in a Sherman tank and was wounded in the Battle of the Rhineland. He lost contact with his regiment for 70 years, but serendipity engineered a reunion and he finally received his Wound Stripe in a 2014 ceremony at regimental headquarters in Montreal. He later represented his regiment in France for the centennial of the World War I Battle of Vimy Ridge.

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