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Military service
Service number:
61326
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
April 6, 1897
Montréal (St-Vincent-de-Paul)
Enlistment:
October 22, 1914
Montréal
Death:
June 11, 1916
Zillebeke, Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Baptized Joseph Wilfrid Charette.
Son of Ludger Charette and Parmélia Ménard, of Montréal, Québec. His mother died in 1902 and his father remarried to Rose-de-Lima « Délima » Prud’homme in 1903, then he died in 1909. Wilfrid stated being born in 1895 and named his sister Florina Charette-Pilon as next of kin when he enlisted.
Wilfrid had been evacuated of the unit the month before, to care for his multiple shell fragment wounds and had been back for only five days when he was killed.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Wilfrid Charette
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Charette
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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