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Military service
Service number:
22952
Age:
32
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of William James and Emily M. Andrews Lemesurier, of Quebec.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
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Group Photo
Garnet Lemesurier (left) friend Rex Meredith, and brother Sid jump over a fence in Kamouraska, Quebec in the summer of 1910. -
Family photo
Garnet Lemesurier (far right) and his family in Kamouraska, Quebec, September, 1914: L-R: brother Percy, father William John, mother Emily, brother Sidney, Garnet. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Garnet LeMesurier
Sgt. Garnet LeMesurier, standing in front of 1053 Lachevrotière, the family home in Québec City, autumn 1914. Died in the second battle of Ypres, April 24, 1915. Along with 1000 other Canadians who died that day. His body was never found, and lies under Flanders Fields. A fine son, a great athlete and sportsman, the favourite sibling of his 8 brothers and sisters who told great stories of him decades later. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Le Soleil - 10 May 1915 -
Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 11 may 1915
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Garnet Wolsely Lemesurier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 24 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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