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Private Johnny Dubé

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Military service

Service number: 61020
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: May 9, 1892 Chicoutimi (Saguenay), Québec
Enlistment: November 6, 1914 St-Jean, Québec
Death: July 17, 1916 Southampton, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: C.E. 1815.
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Baptized Joseph-John-Welly Dubé. Son of Féréol Dubé and Marie Gaudreault, of Chicoutimi (Saguenay), Québec. He signed “Johnny” for his first name when he enlisted.

On 17 June 1916, in front line trenches in Mont Sorrel, Ypres, Belgium, Corporal Dubé was hit by shrapnel in the back and legs. After three weeks of intensive care in France, he was evacuated in England, at the Southampton University War Hospital, where his left leg was amputated. He died there eight days later from complications.

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Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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