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Private Rosario Francoeur

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Military service

Service number: 120873
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 16, 1892 Montreal (Notre-Dame)
Enlistment: September 25, 1915
Death: October 4, 1916

Burial/memorial information

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: X. A. 1.
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Son of Zotique Francoeur and Augustina Cousineau, of Montréal and St-Martin-de-Laval, Île-Jésus, Québec.

His mother deceased in 1897, his father then remarried to Agnès Cantin in 1898 and he died in 1905.

He stated being born in St-Martin-de-Laval when he enlisted.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 88 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Courcelette is a village some 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Courcelette British Cemetery is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track, suitable for cars, from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres. The route is signposted in the village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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