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Private Joseph Lamoureux

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Military service

Service number: 243214
Age: 30
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: May 4, 1888 Montréal (Sacré-Coeur)
Enlistment: March 28, 1916
Death: August 27, 1918 Tincourt, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Tincourt German Cem. Mem. 23.
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Baptized Joseph-Pius Lamoureux. Son of Frédéric Lamoureux (deceased in 1914) and Élisa Bénard, of Ste-Julie-de-Verchères, St-Amable-de-Verchères, Montréal and Longueuil, Québec. At the time of his enlistment he had declared that he did not know his date of birth but this was traced using his mother's maiden name which appears on her will.

On August 16th 1918, east of Chilly, during a push into the enemy lines he was seriously wounded in one eye and one knee and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds eleven days later in a German field hospital at Tincourt and is buried in the local German cemetery (grave number 36). The location of his grave could not later be located and he is now commemorated on a memorial and headstone at Tincourt New British Cemetery.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 445 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Tincourt is a village about 7 kilometres east of Peronne and TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY is on the west side of the village, just off the D199.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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