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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
Digital gallery of
Private Ozias Lauzon
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Commemorated on:
Page 272 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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