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Military service
Service number:
660239
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
August 19, 1891
Montréal (St-Louis-de-France), Québec
Enlistment:
February 4, 1916
Montréal, Québec
Death:
November 6, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 37.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Alphonse-Eugène Lamothe. Son of Arthur Lamothe (deceased in 1903) and Rosanna Allard (deceased in 1899), of Montréal. He served as Alphonse LAPOINTE. He stated being born in 1890 and pretended he was single when he enlisted. He named his sister, Robina, as next of kin and also used Lapointe for her last name. He was in fact married since 1912 to Rose-Alma St-Amour, of Montréal.
He was temporarily attached to the 5th Light Trench Mortar Battery when he died.
Digital gallery of Private Alphonse Lapointe
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Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - December 6, 1917 -
Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Alphonse Lapointe
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Private Alphonse Lapointe
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Lapointe
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Lapointe
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Lapointe
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Lapointe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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