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Military service
Service number:
660756
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
October 16, 1887
Bourget, Russell, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 31, 1916
Montréal, Québec
Death:
July 7, 1917
Angres, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. F. 14.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Augustin Leroux. Son of Rose-de-Lima Ménard (deceased in 1906) and Hilaire Leroux (remarried in 1911 to Alphonsine Primeau), of Bourget, Russell, Ontario. He had declared to be born on April 15, 1889 when he enlisted.
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Photo of Joseph Leroux
Joseph Leroux, Originaire de Bourget, Ontario - 1916 -
Photo of Joseph Leroux
Joseph Leroux (Service # 660756) Back row, 2nd from right - Originates from Bourget, Ontario. Photo taken in Prospect, Bermuda, 1916. -
Wartime diary
Excerpt from wartime diary from the 22nd battalion -
Newspaper clipping
La Presse - August 8, 1917
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Private Joseph Leroux
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Leroux
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Leroux
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Leroux
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 274 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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