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Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard

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Military service

Service number: 417949
Age: 20
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 4, 1896 Matane, Bas St-Laurent, Québec
Enlistment: July 21, 1915 Rimouski, Québec
Death: April 9, 1917 Vimy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: V. D. 15.
Additional information
Son of Étienne Chénard and Ernestine Tremblay (deceased in 1904), of Matane. His father remarried to Marie-Onésime Michaud in 1905 and moved to Bic, Rimouski, Québec. Joseph-Étienne stated being born in Bic in 1894 when he enlisted.

Enlisted in the 57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion on 13 October 1915. He arrived in Plymouth, England on 28 October and was transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion on 29 February 1916, then to the 69th Battalion on 13 July and to the 22nd Battalion on 27 September. Arriving in France on the 29th, he died on 9 April 1917 of wounds sustained in action during the assault on Vimy Ridge in the Souchez and Scarpe river area.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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