Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted in the 57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion on 13 October 1915. He arrived in Plymouth, England on 28 October and was transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion on 29 February 1916, then to the 69th Battalion on 13 July and to the 22nd Battalion on 27 September. Arriving in France on the 29th, he died on 9 April 1917 of wounds sustained in action during the assault on Vimy Ridge in the Souchez and Scarpe river area.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Catchpole to Chignell. Microform Sequence 19; Volume Number 31829_B016728. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 853 of 958. -
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Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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