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Baptized Abel-Charles-Prudent Beaudry. Son of Victor Beaudry (deceased in 1888) and Angelina Leblanc, of Montréal, Québec.
Transferred to the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 1 July 1916, he took part in the Battle of the Somme in France. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916 by a machine-gun bullet to the head during an assault at Courcelette, France, in Sauvage Valley between the woods of Bazentin, Mametz and Contalmaison.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 295 of 724.
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From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
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La Patrie - 25 September 1916
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La Patrie - 30 September 1916
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La Presse - 25 September 1916
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La Presse - 3 October 1916
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La Presse - 25 October 1916
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Le Canada - 4 October 1916
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Le Devoir - 27 September 1916
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Le Devoir - 3 October 1916
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From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 295 of 724.
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From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
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La Patrie - 25 September 1916
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La Patrie - 30 September 1916
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La Presse - 25 September 1916
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La Presse - 3 October 1916
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La Presse - 25 October 1916
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Le Canada - 4 October 1916
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Le Devoir - 27 September 1916
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Le Devoir - 3 October 1916
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From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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