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Private Alphonse Hamel

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Military service

Service number: 417181
Age: 43
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: January 26, 1874 Ste-Marie-de-Monnoir, Rouville
Enlistment: May 17, 1915
Death: March 31, 1917 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

LEEDS ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Grave reference: DX. 125.
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Son of François Hamel (deceased in 1899) and Hermine Archambault (deceased in 1902) of Frenchtown, Missoula, Montana. Husband of Rosa Léonard, of Montréal, Québec, and father of four children in the 1911 census.

Severely wounded to the head on 18 September 1916 during the Battle of Courcelette, he was evacuated to England where he died at 2nd Northern General Hospital, Beckett’s Park, Leeds.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 250 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LEEDS ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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