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Military service
Service number:
145002
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
May 10, 1891
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Leo Gagnon
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Photo of Lorenzo (Leo) Gagnon
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. Gagnon was born on May 10th, 1891 and was a farmer. -
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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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Leo Gagnon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 89 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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