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Captain Georges Étienne Rosaire Crochetière

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Military service

Age: 39
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Chaplain Service
Division: attd. 22nd Bn. Canadian Inf. (Quebec Regt.)
Birth: July 20, 1878 Arthabaska, Québec
Enlistment: March 21, 1916 Montréal, Québec
Death: April 2, 1918 Mercatel, France

Burial/memorial information

BAILLEULMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave left of centre path between two french tombs
Additional information
Baptized George-Étienne-Rosaire Crochetière; he was ordained to the priesthood in 1905. Son of Alphonse Crochetière and Joséphine Cormier, of Arthabaska, Québec. His mother died in 1880 and his father remarried the following year with Azilda Dubuc. They eventually moved to Québec City where his father died in 1905. Azilda Bolduc never remarried and died there in 1937. Rosaire Crochetière is believed to be the only Catholic chaplain to be killed in service during the First World War.

He had previously served with the 178th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Montreal, Quebec, from 18 February 1916. On 9 September, he transferred to the 150th Battalion. He crossed into Great Britain on 14 September and arrived in Liverpool on 6 October. He was posted to the 14th Canadian Infantry Brigade at Witley on 10 March 1917, to the 5th Canadian Division from 5 to 25 August to cross into France, and then to the 22nd Battalion on 9 September 1917. He was killed in action on 2 April 1918 in the trenches at Mercatel, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

Related media

First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 391 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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