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Ovila Ledoux
In memory of:
Private Ovila Ledoux
November 16, 1918
Military Service
61375
22
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Military Medal for bravery in action during the Battle of Amiens on August 8-9, 1918. (Canadian Army Routine Order 4276, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, September1, 1918)
Additional Information
November 5, 1896
Montréal (Ste-Cunégonde), Quebec
October 27, 1914
Montreal, Quebec
Baptized Joseph-Hector-Avila Ledoux, but he was known as Ovila Ledoux.
Son of Alfred Ledoux and Alida Messier, of Montréal (St-Henri), Québec.
He stated being born in St-Henri on September 10, 1896 when he enlisted.
After three years of service in war theatre and less than a week after the Armistice, he died of influenza.
Commemorated on Page 447 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord, France
I. A. 24.
Auberchicourt is a commune mining village in the Department of the Nord, 11.5 kilometres east of Douai on the road to Valenciennes and AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is one kilometre west of the village on the northside of the road to Erchin, 300 yards away from the Communal Cemetery.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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