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Private Léonidas Joly

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Military service

Service number: 61477
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: January 22, 1891 Québec (St-Roch)
Enlistment: October 22, 1914
Death: November 17, 1915

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Baptized Joseph-Léonidas-Edgar Joly. Son of Joseph-Léon Joly and Delvina Tremblay, of Viauville and Lachine, Montréal, Québec.

On 12 November 1915, at Vierstraat, Belgium, he was severely wounded from shrapnel to a thigh and, on the 17th, while he was evacuated to England on board Hospital ship HMHS Anglia, the ship hit a mine and sunk.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 22 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom

HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL is situated within Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton.

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