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Private Roch Gagnon

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Military service

Service number: 448749
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 11, 1890 St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, L’Islet
Enlistment: December 7, 1915
Death: November 9, 1917 Passchendaele, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XII. B. 23.
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Baptized Joseph-Roch-Amédée Gagnon. Son of Joseph Gagnon-dit-Belzile (deceased in 1898) and Adéline Martin (remarried in 1899 to Émile Dubé and deceased in 1915), of St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, and of Greenville, New Hampshire. Roch was married to Clara Mailhot, of Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, and he was father of a son.

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Page 241 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY Belgium

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY is located 7 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Zonnebekestraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332), connecting Ieper to Zonnebeke.

Two roads connect Ieper town centre onto the Zonnebeekseweg. The Torhoutstraat leads from the market square onto a small roundabout, at the roundabout the first right turn is Basculestraat. At the end of Basculestraat there is a cross roads and Zonnebeekseweg is the turning to the left. 7 Km along the Zonnebeekseweg in the village of Zonnebeke, lies the left hand turning onto the Langemarkstraat, (further on this street name changes to Zonnebekestraat). The DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY lies 1.5 Km along this road on the left hand side.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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