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Private Ovide Duchâtelet

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Military service

Service number: 121179
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 15, 1892 Montréal (Sacré-Coeur)
Enlistment: October 13, 1915
Death: March 1, 1917 Fosse 10, Sains-en-Gohelle, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. B. 29.
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Baptized Joseph-Ovide-Wilfrid Duchâtelet. Son of Ovide Duchâtelet and Flore Légaré, of Montréal, Québec.

He was a deserter since 11 January 1917 and was located at Fosse 10 on 1 March by two military police officers. He resisted arrest and was shot when he tried to escape. His death was deemed accidental.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 231 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France

Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.

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