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Private Sigismond Bissonnette

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Military service

Service number: 121774
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 5, 1893 St-Marc-sur-Richelieu, Québec
Enlistment: February 12, 1916 Montreal, Québec
Death: April 21, 1917 Waterloo, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IX. F. 12.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Ubalde-Sigismond Bissonnette. Son of Anaclet Bissonnette and Luxivina Dansereau of St-Marc-sur-Richelieu and Montréal, Québec.

Husband of Régina-Denise Charpentier of Montréal, Québec.

He fought at Bully-Grenay, Lens, Angres, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was wounded on 9 March 1917 by the blast of an exploding shell. On the following 31st he was admitted to King George Hospital on Stamford Street in Waterloo, England, now London, where he died of his wounds on 21st April 1917.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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