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Private Joseph Louis Lévesque

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Military service

Service number: 62072
Age: 40
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: June 30, 1877 Montreal (Notre-Dame)
Enlistment: December 16, 1914
Death: May 9, 1918

Burial/memorial information

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION No.2
Grave reference: II. A. 2.
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Baptized Louis-Joseph Lévesque. Son of Joseph Lévesque and Marie Lebel, of St-François-de-Madawaska, New-Brunswick. Husband of Dorothy Albert, of Waterville and Augusta, Maine. He stated being born in 1884, and widowed (no child) when he enlisted. However, he got married in 1898, was the father of two sons, one born in 1912 and the second born in 1915, three months after he departed overseas. His wife never remarried, she died in 1991 at 107 years-old.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 449 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION No.2 Somme, France

Doullens is a town in the Department of the Somme, approximately 30 kilometres north of Amiens on the N25 road to Arras.

The DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSIONS lie on the eastern side f the town, about 270 metres south-east of the road to Arras.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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