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Military service
Service number:
454416
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
October 9, 1892
Villecomtal, Aveyron, France
Enlistment:
July 2, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 18, 1916
Courcelette, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Jean-Laurent and Rosalie Bazet, of Villecomtal, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France. No genealogy document was available to confirm the information found on the attestation paper.
He was reported missing and presumed killed in action on 18 September 1916 during the Battle of Courcelette, Pas-de-Calais, France. His body was never recovered.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Léon Bazet
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 51 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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