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Military service
Service number:
120453
Age:
42
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
August 5, 1876
Montréal (Notre-Dame), Québec
Enlistment:
August 17, 1915
Montréal, Québec
Death:
October 9, 1918
Escaudoeuvres, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 19.
Additional information
Baptized Jean-Baptiste Laverrière. Son of Joseph Laverrière and Agnès Giroux (deceased in 1917). Husband of Hermina Boyce-dit-Bernard, of Montréal (Ste-Cunégonde), Québec. Over time the family name changed from "Laverrière" to "Lavallière" and he bore the latter in the 1901 census. He had claimed to be born in 1878 when he enlisted and was the father of three daughters at the time of crossing over. His youngest died five months after his departure.
Digital gallery of Private John Lavallière
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La Presse October 24,1918 -
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Circumstances of death registers
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Private John Lavallière
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Private John Lavallière
Digital gallery of
Private John Lavallière
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Private John Lavallière
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Private John Lavallière
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 446 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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