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Private Ernest Gagné

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Military Medal (MM)

Military service

Service number: 61951
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: April 11, 1892 Ste-Angèle-de-Mérici, Bas-St-Laurent
Enlistment: November 3, 1914
Death: September 1, 1918 Arras, France

Burial/memorial information

FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
Grave reference: VII. E. 51.
Additional information
Son of Napoléon Gagné and Rose-de-Lima Corriveau (deceased in 1893). His father remarried to Florentine Ouellet in 1894 and they permanently resided in Ste-Angèle-de-Mérici. Ernest declared being born on 5 April 1893 when he enlisted. He was wounded by a shell fragment to his right side at Chérisy, on 28 August 1918, and he died four days later at the 3rd Field Ambulance, then located at Hospice St-Jean, in Arras.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 412 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS Pas de Calais, France

Fabourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, to the south of the road to Doullens.

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