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Private Édouard Villeneuve

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Military service

Service number: 120972
Age: 18
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: January 12, 1898 St-Canut, Deux-Montagnes
Enlistment: September 10, 1915
Death: December 25, 1916 Angres, France

Burial/memorial information

TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY
Grave reference: K. 9.
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Baptized Jules-Édouard Villeneuve. Son of Adrien Villeneuve and Marie Bourgeois (d. 1910), of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was born in 1897 when he enlisted and he had named his aunt and godmother, Miss Rose-Délima Bougeois as next of kin.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 176 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Aix-Noulette lies about 16 kilometres north of Arras about 2 kilometres south-west of Bully-les-Mines on the road from Arras to Bethune. TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres east of the village.

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