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Military service
Service number:
62191
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
November 25, 1891
Chassell
Enlistment:
April 28, 1915
Montreal, Québec
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Damase Beauséjour and Marie-Louise Barrette (deceased in 1902). His father remarried to Eugénie Desrosiers in 1903 and lived in St-Liguori-de-Montcalm, Québec.
Reported killed in action between the 14th September 1916 and the 18th during the Battle of Courcelette, France, at Brickefields, he was declared killed in action on the 14th.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Beauséjour
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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) -
Cemetery
Commemorative stele - St-Liguori cemetery. -
Cemetery
Commemorative stele - St-Liguori cemetery. -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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