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Lance Corporal Joseph Oscar Chartier

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Military service

Service number: 847213
Age: 32
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: September 14, 1885 St-Luc, comté de St-Jean
Enlistment: September 16, 1915
Death: August 27, 1918 Chérisy, France

Burial/memorial information

SUN QUARRY CEMETERY
Grave reference: C. 12.
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Son of Israël Chartier and Joséphine Raymond, of St-Luc, and husband of Marie-Anna Latour, from Montréal (Côte-St-Paul), Québec.

Joseph-Oscar was father of six children when he enlisted; three of them died within two weeks, three months after he left for overseas : Marie Arsène Pauline Exilda (1908-1987), Paul Alphonse Israël (1909-1918), Joseph Léon Arthur (1911-1985), Marie Pauline Jeanne (1912-1914), Joseph Henri Wilfrid (1913-1917), Joseph Oscar Chartier (1915-1917).

Enlisted in the 73rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 13257, he crossed to England, arriving in Liverpool on 6 October 1916. On 27 February 1918 he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, regimental number 847213, and crossed into France on the 28th. He was killed in action on 27 August 1918 during the Battle of Chérisy.

‘On 27 August [1918], at 430 hrs, the 22nd reached the assembly point for the attack. The starting trenches were called ‘The Panther’ and ‘The Egret’. At 1000 hrs, the artillery opened a barrage of all its guns on the German trenches. Three minutes later, the 22nd once again jumped the parapet and was greeted by intense artillery and musketry fire... For two long hours, it was a slow approach, in small groups, leaping from hole to hole, shell to shell, through the barbed wire, across the plain mowed down by machine guns, sprayed with shrapnel and hammered by shells. In the enemy trenches, it's hand-to-hand combat, the bayonet. Histoire du 22e Bataillon canadien-français, tome 1 – 1914-1919, pages 365-366.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 383 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.

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