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Private John Lavallière

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Military service

Service number: 120453
Age: 42
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 5, 1876 Montréal (Notre-Dame)
Enlistment: August 17, 1915
Death: October 9, 1918 Escaudoeuvres, France

Burial/memorial information

CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai)
Grave reference: I. A. 19.
Additional information
Baptized Jean-Baptiste Laverrière. Son of Joseph Laverrière and Agnès Giroux (deceased in 1917). Husband of Hermina Boyce-dit-Bernard, of Montréal (Ste-Cunégonde), Québec. Over time the family name changed from "Laverrière" to "Lavallière" and he bore the latter in the 1901 census. He had claimed to be born in 1878 when he enlisted and was the father of three daughters at the time of crossing over. His youngest died five months after his departure.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 446 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai) Nord, France

Tilloy-les-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai. Follow the N30 (Cambrai Ring Road) from Cambrai to its junction with the Tilloy-les-Cambrai road, the D49, just after the junction of the N30 and the N43 (Douai road). Follow the D49 for approximately 2.2 kilometres, crossing the bridge over the motorway, to a side road on the west-south-west (left) side. The Canada Cemetery lies 200 metres away at the end of the side road.

Tilloy was captured by the Canadian Corps about the 1st October, 1918, in the face of strong opposition, and the cemetery was made by their Burial Officer on the 13th October. It is enclosed by a brick wall, and sheltered from the road by a row of willows; and a maple tree is planted at the South-East corner.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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