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Son of Jean Sheehy and Flavie Pilote.
Baptized Joseph Eugène Sheehy, he served under the name Eugène Laflèche.
Eugène SHEEHY (sometimes spelled SHEA in English) enrolled first with the 37th Battalion on August 2, 1915. He was then transferred to the 41st Battalion and got a new service number (411765). Two months later, he was declared missing (would have deserted) in Valcartier and taken off strength on October 3, 1915, shortly before the Battalion departed for England. He then reenrolled with the 69th Battalion in Montreal (service number 121111 on October 6, 1915 under his alias Eugène Laflèche.
He crossed over to Great Britain on April 17, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, with the 69th Reserve Battalion. On August 27, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and crossed over to France that same day with the 69th. From September 18 to 22, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. Upon returning to the 22nd, he was wounded by a sentry’s fire while returning to camp after going Absent Without Leave (AWOL). He was transported, having been shot in the leg, to the 5th Canadian Field Ambulance stationed in the Lens-Vimy sector, Pas-de-Calais, where he died on July 26, 1917.
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From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
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Private Eugène Laflèche
Digital gallery of
Private Eugène Laflèche
Digital gallery of
Private Eugène Laflèche
Digital gallery of
Private Eugène Laflèche
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Page 270 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.
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