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Military service
Service number:
666440
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
April 29, 1895
Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
April 20, 1916
Moncton, New Brunswick
Death:
July 21, 1917
Cité St-Pierre, Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. D. 6.
Additional information
Son of Hippolyte Richard and Marguerite Saulnier, of Moncton, New Brunswick. Husband of Blanche-Lillian True, of Salisbury, Massachusetts.
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Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice: It was either given to his widow or given to his mother to commemorate the loss of a loved one. -
Circumstances of death registers
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Wartime diary
Extract from the War Diary of the 22nd Battalion which specifies the place of his death. The Cité St-Pierre (Pit n ° 11) was to the north-west of the Lens, that is to say towards Liévin. -
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Private Valérie Albert Richard
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Private Valérie Albert Richard
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Private Valérie Albert Richard
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Private Valérie Albert Richard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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