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Military service
Service number:
62254
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
October 17, 1896
Montréal (Mile-End), Québec
Enlistment:
May 4, 1915
Montréal, Québec
Death:
February 20, 1916
Vierstraat, Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. B. 13.
Additional information
Baptized Sylvain-Alphonse-Eugène Charbonneau. Son of Aimé Charbonneau and Léda Bariteau (deceased in 1897), of Montréal, Québec. His father remarried to Léontine Théorêt in 1899 and lived in Montréal. Alphonse stated being born in 1895 when he enlisted.
He left for England on 20 May 1915 and arrived in Plymouth on the 29th. On 15 September he landed at Le Havre, Normandy, France. He was killed in action during the Battle of Ypres, Belgium, at Vierstraat.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Digital gallery of Private Alphonse Charbonneau
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Photo of Léontine Théorêt
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 1 March 1916
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Charbonneau
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Charbonneau
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Charbonneau
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Charbonneau
Digital gallery of
Private Alphonse Charbonneau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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