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Major Alexander Logie Howard Renaud

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: October 28, 1888 St-Jean, Québec
Enlistment: May 17, 1915 Valcartier, Québec
Death: September 15, 1916 Courcelette, France

Burial/memorial information

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON
Grave reference: II. D. 3.
Additional information
Son of Reverend John Frederick Renaud and Harriet Sophia Covernton, of Montréal. Married in 1914 to Kathleen de Courcy Holland, he became father of a son the day before he departed overseas. His wife never remarried and died in 1978.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 153 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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