Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted with the 57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was posted to the 69th Battalion in England on 8 June 1916, to the 10th Reserve Battalion on 4 January 1917, to the 8th Reserve Battalion on the 20th, to the 22nd Battalion Reserve on 19 February, returning to the 10th Battalion on 7 March. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 4 May 1917, he landed in France the same day to take part in the fighting in the Lens sector on the 8th. He was killed in action on 15 August 1917 during the Battle of Lens on Hill 70 in the trenches near Cité Saint-Laurent for the capture of Catapult Trench.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Lionel Bouchard
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Memorial
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) -
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Lionel Bouchard
Digital gallery of
Private Lionel Bouchard
Digital gallery of
Private Lionel Bouchard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 205 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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