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Military service
Service number:
62087
Age:
25
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
August 25, 1892
Salem
Enlistment:
December 4, 1914
St-Jean, Québec
Death:
August 8, 1918
Vecquemont, Amiens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. D. 10.
Additional information
Son of Henri Chouinard and Malvina Blais, respectively from Salem, Massachusetts, and Montréal (St-Henri), Québec. Calixte was wounded by a piece of shrapnel to the abdomen on 6 August, near Gentelles, in the Amiens area. He died of his wounds two days later at Casualty clearing station n° 5 in Vecquemont.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Calixte Chouinard
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 137 of 1068. -
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Corporal Calixte Chouinard
Digital gallery of
Corporal Calixte Chouinard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 384 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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