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Wounded very seriously in the head at Courcelette on September 18th, 1916, he was immediately evacuated to England to the Horton (County of London) War Hospital. He never recovered from his wounds and died there after three months.
Aimé Lacroix was from the Atikamekw Nation and on November 11th, 2012, Remembrance Day, he was the first Aboriginal veteran to receive the Quebec National Assembly Medal (Source: Veterans Affairs Canada).
Digital gallery of Private Aimé Lacroix
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Private Aimé Lacroix
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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EPSOM CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
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