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Military service
Service number:
121005
Age:
21
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
September 14, 1896
St-Boniface-de-Shawinigan, Mauricie, Québec
Enlistment:
September 23, 1915
Montréal, Québec
Death:
May 1, 1918
Neuville-Vitasse, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 9.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Pierre-Wilfrid Lessard. Son of Marie-Anne Gélinas (deceased in 1907) and Hormisdas Lessard (remarried in 1908 to Marie-Anne-Alzéma Charette), of Shawinigan-Falls, Mauricie, Québec. He had declared to be born in 1895 when he enlisted.
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Registre des circonstances de décès
Circumstances of death -
Autre
Sommaire de service avec le 22e Bataillon vu que son dossier est manquant aux archives nationales. -
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Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
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Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
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Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 449 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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