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Private François Guignard

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Military service

Service number: 416455
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: March 3, 1892 Lamèque, Gloucester
Enlistment: August 21, 1915
Death: August 29, 1918 Ligny, France

Burial/memorial information

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. B. 9.
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Son of Marie David (deceased in 1893) and Hyacinthe Guignard (deceased in 1905), of Lamèque, Gloucester, New Brunswick. François named his older brother Édouard « Hyacinthe », of Pigeon Hill, Gloucester, New Brunswick, as next of kin and heir.

Seriously wounded by shrapnel to the buttock on 27-28 August 1918, at Chérisy, he was evacuated to No. 1 Casualty clearing station in Ligny, where he died of his wounds.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Ligny-St.Flochel is a village about 6.5 kilometres east of St.Pol on the main road to Arras. The distance from Ligny-St. Flochel to Arras is approximately 24 kilometres. The Ligny-St.Flochel British Cemetery is situated to the south of the village on the east side of the road to the village of Averdoingt.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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