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Baptized Josaphat Clermont. Son of André Clermont (deceased in 1907) and Odile Normandin, of St-Jacques-le-Mineur, Laprairie, Québec.
On 23 march 1916, in the first line trenches of Vierstraat, in Belgium, he was hit to the head, possibly from a German sniper. Given the severity of his wound and total loss of sight, he was evacuated to England, where he died three months later in intensive care.
With the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for Great Britain, arriving in Plymouth on 29 May 1915. From Folkestone he sailed for France, landing at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, on September 15. Seriously wounded in the head on 23 March 1916 in the trenches at Vierstraat, Belgium, he was evacuated to England on the hospital ship HS Brighton on 19 April 1916. He died on 27 July 1916 at the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford.
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Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY Berkshire, United Kingdom
Botley is 2 miles west of the city of Oxford in the civil parish of North Hinksey. Leave the Oxford Western bypass (A34) at the Botley interchange and take the exit signposted Oxford A420. At the traffic lights bear left then immediately right into North Hinksey Lane. The entrance to the cemetery is about 200 yards along on the right hand side.
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