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Military service
Service number:
1012622
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
230th Bn.
Birth:
September 19, 1892
Valleyfield (Ste-Cécile), Québec
Enlistment:
September 21, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
November 6, 1916
Montreal, Québec
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Baptized Joseph-Léonide Saint-Pierre. Son of Gilbert Degré-dit-St-Pierre and Adèle Végiard-dit-Labonté (deceased in 1913). He served one week with the 22nd Battalion in December 1914. He reenrolled six months later with the 41st Battalion and stated being born on 21 January 1894. He was released for medical reasons after three months of service and then reenrolled with the 230th Battalion in September 1916, declaring being born on 9 December 1889. He died of a pneumonia at the Royal Victoria Hospital of Montréal.
His last named is spelled DUGRÉ in the records of Notre-Dame of Montréal parish; his last named is spelled DEGRAY in the First World War Book of Remembrance and spelled DEGRÉ at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Commemorated on:
Page 76 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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