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He was baptized Joseph-Charles-Trefflé Brunet.
He was the son of Trefflé Brunet and Virginie Letellier.
Joseph-Charles-Trefflé Brunet was adopted at a young age by George-Edouard Desmarais and Marie-Louise Brunet. They moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island in 1918.
Enlisted in the 150th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, on October 6, 1916, he arrived in Liverpool, England. On November 28, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and left the next day for France, where he landed in Boulogne, in the Pas-de-Calais, that same day. He was killed in action on May 4, 1917, during the Battle of Fresnoy.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 227 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BEEHIVE CEMETERY (WILLERVAL) Pas de Calais, France
Willerval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres north-east of Arras. Beehive Cemetery is one kilometre north of the village and 600 metres by the footpath from the west side of the D50E road to Mericourt in a place called Lorgette.
The cemetery owes its name to a German machine gun emplacement known to the British troops as The Beehive. The cemetery covers an area of 431 square yards. It is enclosed by a concrete curb and a thorn hedge and planted with maples. It stands among cornfields, on the crest of a low ridge, with considerable views of the Vimy battlefield.
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