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Corporal Joseph Kaeble

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Military service

Service number: 889958
Age: 26
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: May 5, 1892 St-Moïse, Bas-St-Laurent
Enlistment: March 20, 1916
Death: June 9, 1918 Arras, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. A. 8.
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Baptized Joseph-Thomas Kaeble. Son of Joseph Kaeble (deceased in 1900) and Marie Ducas, of St-Moïse. His mother remarried in St-Moïse in 1904, but the union failed and soon after, she decided to move to Sayabec with her four children.

He was family support and worked as a driver-mechanic with a forestry company before enlisting with the 189th Bataillon, in March 1916. He arrived in England in October 1916, and his unit was absorbed by the 69th Bataillon. He was transferred in France and taken on strength by the 22e Bataillon in November 1916. He was sent to the front lines on March 3, 1917, one month before the attack at Vimy Ridge. Aside from a six-week stay at the hospital to heal a shoulder wound, he served with the 22e Bataillon.

A Canadian Coast Guard patrol vessel, « CCGS Caporal Kaeble V.C. », was named to honour him and entered service in 2013. This vessel is part of a group of 9 Hero-class patrol vessels.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 439 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WANQUETIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France

Wanquetin is a village approximately 12 kilometres west of Arras and approximately 6 kilometres north of Beaumetz. WANQUETIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION lies to the north-east of the village on the road to Warlus (D.59).

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