Military service
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He is registered as being killed by a shell and his body not recovered near St-Éloi, Belgium, while he was supposedly attached to the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company. He was consequently inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. However, his file and the Orders Part II, 22nd Battalion, differ and rather indicate that he had been missing in action with the 22nd during the assault and the taking of Courcelette.
Enlisted in the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on May 11, 1915. On the 20th, he left for Great Britain, arriving in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. From Folkestone, he left for France on September 15 and arrived in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day, only to be killed in action on the 16th in Belgium.
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 337 of 1076.
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Private Alphonse Doucet
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Private Alphonse Doucet
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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