• Born in Denekamp, Netherlands
• His father Romeo Louis Dallaire was a staff sergeant and also a non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Army
• His mother Catherine Vermaessen was a Dutch nurse
• Romeo later immigrated to Montreal when he was six months old with his Dallaire enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1963 as a cadet
• He attended Le College militaire royal de Saint-jean
• In 1970 Dallaire graduated from the Royal Military college of Canada
• He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree.
• He was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
• Dallaire also attended the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College as well as the United States Marine Corps Command
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• In 1993