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Private Charles Émile Lavoie

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Military service

Service number: 448448
Age: 25
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: September 2, 1893 Ste-Flavie, Bas St-Laurent
Enlistment: November 15, 1915
Death: November 19, 1918 Solesmes, France

Burial/memorial information

VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. E. 2.
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Son of Octave Lavoie and Eugénie Lavoie (deceased in 1902), of Ste-Flavie, Bas St-Laurent, Québec. He had declared that he was born in 1892 when he enlisted.

The battalion was at Wasmes, near Mons, Belgium, when he was stricken with the Spanish flu. On Nov. 14th, 1918, he was rushed to Casualty Clearing Station No. 4 at Solesmes, near Valenciennes, France, and died there of pneumonia five days later.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 446 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Nord, France

VALENCIENNES (ST.ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY is situated on the north-east side of the town, about 1.5 kilometres from the centre. It is on the north side of the road to Bruay-sur-L'Escaut.

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