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François Guignard
In memory of:
Private François Guignard
August 29, 1918
Ligny, France
Military Service
416455
26
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
March 3, 1892
Lamèque, Gloucester
August 21, 1915
Hull, Outaouais, Quebec
Son of Marie David (deceased in 1893) and Hyacinthe Guignard (deceased in 1905), of Lamèque, Gloucester, New Brunswick. François named his older brother Édouard « Hyacinthe », of Pigeon Hill, Gloucester, New Brunswick, as next of kin and heir.
Seriously wounded by shrapnel to the buttock on 27-28 August 1918, at Chérisy, he was evacuated to No. 1 Casualty clearing station in Ligny, where he died of his wounds.
Commemorated on Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
III. B. 9.
Ligny-St.Flochel is a village about 6.5 kilometres east of St.Pol on the main road to Arras. The distance from Ligny-St. Flochel to Arras is approximately 24 kilometres. The Ligny-St.Flochel British Cemetery is situated to the south of the village on the east side of the road to the village of Averdoingt.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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