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Private Edgar Houle

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Military service

Service number: 3031789
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 27, 1896 St-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond
Enlistment: January 3, 1916 Ontario
Death: November 16, 1918 Camiers, France

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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: L. C. 23.
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Baptized Joseph-Edmond-Edgar Houle. Son of Alcide Houle and Alma Bibeau, of St-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond, Québec. He stated being born on the 28th when he enlisted.

Severely wounded from shrapnel in the left thigh during the assault on the village of Élouges, on 7 November 1918, he was evacuated to No 8 General Hospital in Camiers where he died of his wounds.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 431 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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