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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Birth:
February 14, 1894
Acton Vale, Québec
Enlistment:
September 18, 1916
Rouen, France
Death:
August 17, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 4.
Additional information
Baptized Aimé Louis René Bourgeois in the parish of Ste-Anne d'Acton Vale on February 18, 1894. Son of Louis and Corine Bourgeois (née Leclerc)
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 333 of 934 -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
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Photo of RENE BOURGEOIS
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 25 August 1917 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
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Lieutenant René Bourgeois
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 205 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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