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Private François Xavier Larivière

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Military service

Service number: 754555
Age: 32
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 29, 1885 Cap d’Espoir (L’Anse-du-Cap), Gaspésie, Québec
Enlistment: March 8, 1916 Blind River, Algoma, Ontario
Death: December 10, 1917 London, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: IX. B. 7.
Additional information
Baptized François-Xavier Larivière. Son of François-Xavier Larivière and Marguerite Cloutier, of Blind River, Ontario. Husband of Marie Parisien and father of four children, of Blind River, and later, of Sturgeon Falls, Nipissing, Ontario. He had declared to be born on July 24th, 1884 when he enlisted. He also signed incorrectly as ""Frank Larivere"" and was consequently entered in the Book of Remembrance as such.

At Lens, on August 15th, 1917, he was hit by shrapnel to the head and was immediately evacuated to the Casualty Clearing Station. However, due to the severity of his injuries, he was not able to be transported to England until a month later. He died there at the King George Hospital in London.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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