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Private Hormidas Berthiaume

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Military service

Service number: 61541
Age: 28
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 3, 1890 St-Eugène-de-Grantham, Drummond
Enlistment: October 22, 1914
Death: January 23, 1919 London, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. K. 8.
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Son of Louis Berthiaume and Lucie Deslandes, of St-Eugène-de-Grantham, Québec. He stated being born in 1891 when he enlisted.

Hormidas Berthiaume was one of the original members of the 22nd Battalion and he had been part of many battles. Severely wounded on 14 August 1918 at the Battle of Amiens, he was evacuated to England and hospitalized during more than four months. On 15 January 1919, he was released form hospital on medical leave for ten days, but less than a week later, maybe due to the Spanish flu, he suffered a pneumonia and hospitalized at Endell Street Military Hospital, in London. Two days later, he died of acute appendicitis.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 530 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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