Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Canadian Navy was so proud of Surgeon Lieut. Joseph C. Cyr of H.M.C.S. Cayuga, that it fired off a publicity puff about him and the emergency operations he performed on wounded South Koreans. In one case, he took only ten minutes to remove a bullet lodged a quarter of an inch from a man's heart. In another, where the wounded man had a bullet through the lung, Surgeon Cyr saved his life by expertly sealing off the chest. Ashore, he performed skillful amputations by flashlight in a mud hut. In short, the navy's medical service...
Last week the Royal Canadian Navy was redfaced and backing water. In naval barracks near Victoria, B.C., a court-martial sat in judgment on the surgeon lieutenant who called himself Joseph Cyr. He was charged with fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...
Private Life: Wife, Cécile Bonnefoy; two sons, Pierre, 22, second lieutenant in a Moroccan rifle regiment (and also a St. Cyr graduate), and Michel, 13. Fond of cigars, bridge, music-hall ditties, dancing (but no jitterbugging...
Education: From Algerian high school to St. Cyr Military Academy, where in 1911 he graduated first in a class that included Charles de Gaulle...
...House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan's Princess Fatima to President Warren G. Harding. In 1926, claiming to be a prominent Hollywood physician, he tried to take charge of Rudolph Valentino's funeral services in New York. Other roles: Lieut. Commander Royale St. Cyr, French air corps; Peruvian ambassador...