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Baptized Joseph-Ovila D’Aoust. Son of Joseph-Ovila D’Aoust and Eugénie Gratton, of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born in 1893 when he enlisted.
Ovila Senior also served at the front with the 22nd Battalion (service number 62190) and he came back home in 1918 medically and physically drained.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Plymouth, England, on 29 May 1915. On 15 September he landed at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Slightly wounded in a sprained right ankle on 3 May 1917, he returned to service on 16 May. Loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from 14 June to 31 July 1917, he returned to the 22nd Battalion. He was posted to the 5th Mortar Brigade from 8 Augus8 to 15 October 1917. On his way back to the 22nd Battalion he was killed in action on the 15th during the Battle of Lens, France.
At the time of his death, Ovila Junior was attached since two months to the 5th Light Trench Mortar Battery.
When his son was baptized and when he enrolled, Ovila Senior signed his last name « D’Aoust », and Ovila Junior signed « Daoust ».
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Page 225 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, west of the N17 Arras-Lens main road and 6.5 kilometres north of Arras. Thelus Military Cemetery is approximately 300 metres west of the N17, located in the open country, about 50 metres north of Thelus village.
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