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Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, his personal information form was filled out by an English-speaking soldier. The recruit signed his name as Frank Doucett and claimed that his father's name was Johnny Doucett. On September 24, 1915, he transferred to the 41st Battalion and left for Great Britain, arriving in Plymouth on the 28th. On February 29, 1916, he was first transferred to the 23rd Battalion. On April 15, 1916, he was then transferred to the 22nd Battalion and sent to France, landing at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, on the same day with the 23rd Battalion. He joined his new unit on May 4 and went to the front line on the 6th. He was killed in action on August 24, 1916, in the Voormezeele-Saint-Éloi sector, near Ypres, Belgium, in West Flanders.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 355 of 1076. -
Grave marker
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Private Frank Doucett
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Doucett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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