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Private Denis Poirier

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Military service

Service number: 416364
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 9, 1892 Bonaventure, Gaspésie
Enlistment: May 23, 1915
Death: July 18, 1917 Cité Saint-Laurent, Lens, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XIX. G. 20.
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Son of Pierre Poirier and Marguerite Clavet, of Cullens Brook, Gaspésie, Quebec.

He had declared to be born on June 15, 1892 during his enlistment. He had also declared that he was married when he had in fact been a widower of Françoise Roy since 1913; she died two weeks after giving birth to their first child.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 310 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle) is a village to the north of the road from Lens to Bethune. From Lens, take the N43 towards Bethune. Arriving at Loos, turn right at CWGC sign post. The LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY is about 1 kilometre from Loos Church in the southern part of the village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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