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Baptized Jean-Eugène Granger. Son of Édouard Granger (deceased in 1913) and Henriette Jourdenais, of St-Jean-d’Iberville, Granby, Farnham and Lachute, Québec.
He stated being born in 1897 when he enlisted and, according to 1901 and 1911 censuses, his first name was “Jean”, but he enlisted as “Eugène”.
Enlisted in the 57th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was assigned to Company A of the 41st Battalion on September 30, 1915. He sailed for Great Britain on October 18 and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 28th. On the 29th, he was assigned to the 23rd Battalion at Shorncliffe. On April 16, he crossed the English Channel and landed at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day. Also on the 16th, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion. On May 6, he was at the front and took part in the Battle of the Zillebeke Craters, not far from Ypres in Belgium, and then in the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. On the 15th, he was slightly wounded in the cheek. From February 27 to April 16, 1917, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. Upon returning to his unit, he was wounded in action on August 15, 1917, during the Battle of Lens, in the trenches near Cité St-Laurent on Hill 70 during the capture of the Catapult Trench, and was subsequently reported missing. His body was never found.
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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La Presse - 24 December 1915
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Private Eugène Granger
Digital gallery of
Private Eugène Granger
Digital gallery of
Private Eugène Granger
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 246 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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