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Lieutenant Abel Prudent Beaudry

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Military service

Age: 31
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 25, 1885 Los Angeles
Enlistment: September 28, 1915 Valcartier, Québec
Death: September 15, 1916 Courcelette, France

Burial/memorial information

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON
Grave reference: II. D. 6.
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Baptized Abel-Charles-Prudent Beaudry. Son of Victor Beaudry (deceased in 1888) and Angelina Leblanc, of Montréal, Québec.

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.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France

Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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