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Military service
Service number:
892009
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
January 16, 1898
Campbellton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
February 22, 1916
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 4.
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Private Joseph Poirier enlisted in the CEF on February 22, 1916, twenty days after his older brother, Private Philias Poirier, was killed in action in France. Joseph fought with the 8th Battalion and was wounded in action. He recovered and was later killed in action just six weeks before the end of the war.
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Private Joseph Poirier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 486 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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