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Private Arthur Cloutier

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Military service

Service number: 417229
Age: 30
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: November 25, 1886 Sherbrooke
Enlistment: June 18, 1915
Death: April 9, 1917 Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France

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QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. B. 19.
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Baptized George-Arthur Cloutier. Son of Paul Cloutier and Célanire Grondin (deceased in 1912), of Sherbrooke, Québec.

Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion and sailed for England, arriving in Plymouth on 28 October 1915. Transferred again to the 23rd Battalion on 29 February 1916, he left for France on 16 April to join the 22nd Battalion, to which he was posted on the 15th, and went to the front line on 6 May 1916.

He was found dead in his tent on the morning of April 9, cause unknown.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 217 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Les Quatre-Vents is a hamlet about 2 kilometres south-east of Estree-Cauchy, a village and commune 16 kilometres north-west of Arras on the old Roman road to Therouanne. This road is now part of the main road from Arras through Therouanne to Boulogne.

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