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Private Hervé Clermont

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Military service

Service number: 120527
Age: 28
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 1, 1889 Montréal (St-Vincent-de-Paul), Québec
Enlistment: August 20, 1915 Montréal, Québec
Death: July 6, 1917 Liévin, Lens, France

Burial/memorial information

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: XIX. E. 10.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Ignace-Hervé Clermont. Son of Jean-Baptiste Clermont (deceased in 1910) and Émilie Tougas, of Montréal, Québec. His mother died the following year and his sister Bella, wife of Arthur Nantel, then became Hervé’s known next of kin.

Enlisted in the 69th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 27 April 1916. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 27 September, he landed in France on the 28th. He went to the front on 16 October 1916 and was killed in action on 6 July 1917 at Liévin during the Battle of Lens.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 217 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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