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Baptized Joseph-Jean-Osias Lauzon and he signed "Ozias".
Son of Jean Lauzon and Évelina Sauriol, of St-Vincent-de-Paul, Île-Jésus, Québec.
Enlisted in the 69th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on April 17, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. On January 4, 1917, he was assigned to the 10th Reserve Battalion before being transferred to the 22nd Battalion on July 10 of that year. On the 12th, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, that same day. From August 17 to 22, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. Upon his return to the 22nd Battalion, he was killed in action on November 9, 1917, during German artillery fire at Abraham Heights during the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium. His body was never recovered.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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La Presse - December 6, 1917
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Private Ozias Lauzon
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Private Ozias Lauzon
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Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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