Military service
Burial/memorial information
Transferred to the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 1 July 1916, he took part in the Battle of the Somme in France. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916 by a machine-gun bullet to the head during an assault at Courcelette, France, in Sauvage Valley between the woods of Bazentin, Mametz and Contalmaison.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Abel Prudent Beaudry
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 295 of 724. -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Photo of ABEL BEAUDRY
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Poem
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
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La Patrie - 25 September 1916 -
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La Patrie - 30 September 1916 -
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La Presse - 25 September 1916 -
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La Presse - 3 October 1916 -
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La Presse - 25 October 1916 -
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Le Canada - 4 October 1916 -
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Le Devoir - 27 September 1916 -
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Le Devoir - 3 October 1916 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
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