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Military service
Service number:
61563
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
April 14, 1895
Montréal (St-Henri), Québec
Enlistment:
October 21, 1914
Montréal, Québec
Death:
June 3, 1916
Saint-Éloi, Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 9.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Étienne-Pierre Contant. Son of Dosithée Contant and Émélie Bégin (deceased in 1895). Émélie died two days after giving birth, the same day of his son’s baptism. His father remarried five years later to Malvina-Clothilde « alias Ida » Anctil and the family lived in Montréal.
He left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 20 May 1915 aboard the HMT Saxonia and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. On 15 September he landed at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, and was killed in action on 3 June 1916.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Pierre Contant
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 12 June 1916
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Private Pierre Contant
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Private Pierre Contant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 69 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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