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Private Arthur Carrière

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Military service

Service number: 101351
Age: 31
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: March 11, 1887 Ste-Scholastique, Deux-Montagnes
Enlistment: September 22, 1915 Alberta
Death: September 1, 1918 Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: LXVI. G. 6.
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Son of Joseph Carrière (deceased in 1918) and Zéphirine Lacroix, of Ste-Scholastique, Deux-Montagnes, Québec. He stated being born on 12 March when he enlisted.

Deployed to the 22nd Battalion in France on 24 November 1917, Arthur first spent two months at the reinforcements camp, possibly to get trained on the machine guns. He joined the 22nd on 4 February 1918 until the end of April. He then transferred with the elite, with the 2nd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps.

Severely wounded to the head at the start of the advance East of Arras, on 28 August 1918, he was evacuated to the General Hospital No. 26 in Étaples and died there four days later.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 381 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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