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Private Joseph Guillemette

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Military service

Service number: 889677
Age: 29
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: January 15, 1888 Danville, Richmond
Enlistment: April 19, 1916
Death: August 17, 1917

Burial/memorial information

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. J. 3.
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Baptized Joseph-Wilfrid Guillemette. Son of Anaclet Guillemette and Célina Richard, of Sherbrooke, Québec. Husband of Rose-de-Lima « Alma » Lévesque, of Mont-Joli, Bas-St-Laurent, Québec. He was father of three children when he enlisted.

He was severely wounded to the head during the assault on Hill 70 in Lens and he died of his wounds at a forward position of No. 7 Casualty clearing station.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 248 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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