Military service
Burial/memorial information
His father remarried to Emma St-Louis in 1894 and she was residing in Montréal during the war.
Previously, he served 12 days with the 85th Régiment de Maisonneuve in Montréal. A member of the founding group of the 22nd French-Canadian Battalion, he claimed to have been born on 20 December 1892 in Montréal, Québec. Arriving in France on 15 September 1915, he fought in the First Battle of Ypres, at Vierstraat, in the St-Éloi trenches, at Zillebeke-Mont-Sorrel, in the Ypres salient, in Belgium, and in the infamous Battle of the Somme, in France. He was killed in action on 30 September 1916 at the Battle of Courcelette, Pas-de-Calais.
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Biography
Joseph Alderic Boucher was profiled by the Ottawa Citizen in their Remembrance Day series. -
Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 19 June 1915
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Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Aldéric Boucher
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 56 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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