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Soldier Information Cards - World War Two
Transcription
Bagey, John.
Rifleman.
Rifleman John Bagey has been added to the lengthening Twin City and district casualty list. According to a telegram received from Ottawa by his mother, Bagey was wounded in action on July 12.
Fighting in Normandy, the Bridgeport soldier is attached to the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. He is 22 years old. Three letters have been received by his family since the invasion began. Referring to France he stated the "country wasn't bad" and added "but there's plenty of bullets whizzing overhead."
Enlisting in June, 1943, he was stationed at Chatham before going overseas last March.
Born May 3, 1922, at Bridgeport, he is a son of Mrs. and the late Mr. William Bagey. He has one brother, at home and five sisters, Mrs. Murray Zupan, Guelph; Mrs. Ross White, Bridgeport; Mrs. Cecil Wolfe, Kitchener, and Estelle and Pauline at home.
Back on duty after being wounded on July 12 in France, Rifleman Bagey is again reported injured. A member of the Winnepeg Rifles, he was on duty as an ambulance driver, when he was wounded the second time, recently. The injury is officially described as a slight contusion (bruise) of the lower right leg.
The ambulance driver was born in Bridgeport on May 3, 1922. He enlisted in June, 1943, and was post-
Wounded
Pte. John Bagey, 23, son of Mrs. Ann Bagey, Bridgeport, and the late William Bagey.
PTE. JOHN BAGEY.
In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Ann Bagey, Bridgeport, Pte. John Bagey has informed her that he was wounded recently while fighting with an Ontario regiment in Germany. Although no official word was received from Ottawa he was wounded in both legs, presumably caused by shell fragments, and is now confined to a hospital in Holland.
He has been wounded twice before since landing in Normandy last June. Pte. Bagey celebrates his thwenty-third birthday today.
He was first wounded with the Winnepeg Rifles in France on July 12 last. Again, four months later, while acting as an ambilance driver, he received bruises of the right leg.
He enlisted in June, 1943, and arrived overseas March, 1944. His father was the late William Bagey.