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Baptized Joseph-Louis-de-Gonzague Gendreau. Son of Elmire Rioux (deceased in 1903) and Alphonse Gendreau (remarried in 1904 to Hermine Boulanger), of St-Fabien-de-Rimouski, Bas St-Laurent, Québec. Although his first name was “Louis-de-Gonzague”, he was simply using “Gonzague”.
Enlisted under the Conscription Act of 1917 at the 2nd Depot of the 2nd Quebec Regiment of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on April 19, 1918, and arrived in Liverpool, England, on the 28th. Upon his arrival, he was assigned to the 10th Reserve Battalion stationed at Bramshott. On August 27, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, and on the 31st, he crossed the English Channel to land in France. He was mortally wounded in action on October 3, 1918, during the Battle of Cambrai, and died the same day. He was buried on the 12th in the cemetery named Canada, located near Cambrai.
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Page 413 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai) Nord, France
Tilloy-les-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai. Follow the N30 (Cambrai Ring Road) from Cambrai to its junction with the Tilloy-les-Cambrai road, the D49, just after the junction of the N30 and the N43 (Douai road). Follow the D49 for approximately 2.2 kilometres, crossing the bridge over the motorway, to a side road on the west-south-west (left) side. The Canada Cemetery lies 200 metres away at the end of the side road.
Tilloy was captured by the Canadian Corps about the 1st October, 1918, in the face of strong opposition, and the cemetery was made by their Burial Officer on the 13th October. It is enclosed by a brick wall, and sheltered from the road by a row of willows; and a maple tree is planted at the South-East corner.
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