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Private Léonidas Bourassa

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Military service

Service number: 2134805
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: June 25, 1898 Québec (Stadacona)
Enlistment: December 18, 1916
Death: August 12, 1918 Vrély et Méharicourt, France

Burial/memorial information

VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave reference: A. 18.
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Baptized Marie-Joseph-Pierre-Léonidas Bourassa. Son of Pierre Bourassa (deceased in 1899) and Léonie Poulin, of Québec, Québec. His mother remarried to Émile Lachance in 1906 and lived successively in Québec, Shawinigan and Montréal.

Léonidas stated being born in 1897 when he enlisted. He was wounded in the Battle of Amiens, during the taking of the villages of Vrély and Méharicourt. Evacuated of his unit on 10 August 1918, he died of his wounds two days later.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 371 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France

Vrely is a village 32 kilometres East of Amiens, immediately South of Rosieres-en-Santerre. The Communal Cemetery Extension adjoins the rear of the Communal Cemetery which is West of the village on the road to Caix.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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