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Lieutenant Louis Antonio Beaubien

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Military service

Age: 29
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd BN
Birth: February 23, 1887 Québec (St-Roch), Québec
Enlistment: November 10, 1914 St-Jean, Québec
Death: June 4, 1916

Burial/memorial information

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. C. 24.
Additional information
Baptized Marie-Joseph-Louis-Antonio Beaubien. Son of Louis-Onésime Beaubien and Ève Gosselin, of Québec. He was an Officer since 1908 with the 9e Régiment de la Milice (Les Voltigeurs de Québec) and had been promoted Captain in 1913. He joined the 22e Bataillon as soon as it was created in October 1914 and was sworn in on November 10 as Lieutenant. However, his enlistment was finalized three weeks later because of his previous rank with the Voltigeurs.

He was killed in action on 4 June 1916 by shrapnel while in the trenches at Zillebeke-Mont-Sorrel in the Ypres Salient, Belgium, at Saint-Éloi. He was giving instructions to his junior officers to better protect the men. Four soldiers were killed and nine wounded along with him, all from C Company, 22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was initially buried at La Brasserie, a cemetery south-south-west of Ypres.

Additional citations

1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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