Joseph Harvey Milton Lacelle (January 18, 1918 – June 28, 1942) was a

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boxer who competed in the

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. He was born in

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. In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to eventual bronze medalist Fidel Ortiz. A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he was killed during a bombing raid over Berlin on June 28, 1942, and buried at the Bergen-OP-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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External links

Hervé Lacelle's profile at Sports Reference.com
1918 births 1942 deaths Martial artists from Ottawa Boxing people from Ontario Bantamweight boxers Olympic boxers for Canada Boxers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Canadian male boxers Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II Canadian military personnel killed in World War II Royal Canadian Air Force officers Military personnel from Ottawa 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-boxing-bio-stub