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Baptized Joseph-Émile-Rosario Girard. Son of Philéas Girard and Amanda Richard, of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born in 1897 when he enlisted.
He stated that he had served for one year with the 58th Westmount Rifles Regiment. Enlisted in the 69th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for Great Britain on April 17, 1916, arriving in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. He was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on July 2 and left for France on the 6th. He arrived that same day and joined his new unit fighting in Zillebeke, Belgium. He was loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from August 5 to September 18, 1916.
He was wounded from shrapnel the year before in Courcelette and had been evacuated for almost one year in England.
On April 5, 1917, he was temporarily assigned to the 10th Reserve Battalion. He returned to the 22nd Battalion on September 6 and went to the front on the 17th. He was killed in action on November 10, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium.
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La Presse - December 6, 1917
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La Presse - December 6, 1917
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Page 244 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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