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Private Lester Bruhut Achorn

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Military service

Service number: 818191
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22e Bataillon
Birth: July 25, 1899 Riley Brook, Perth, Victoria, New Brunswick
Enlistment: April 14, 1916 New Brunswick
Death: August 27, 1918 Chérisy, France

Burial/memorial information

SUN QUARRY CEMETERY
Grave reference: E. 3.
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Son of Benjamin-Alexander Achorn and Isa-Blanche Donaghy.

His mother had divorced and had remarried to George-A. Gibson in 1913. She then resided in Fort Fairfield, Maine, where she died in 1947.

Lester stated being born in 1898 but it was later found that he was underage and had to stay in England until June 1918 before being sent to the front lines.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 357 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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