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Ernest Gagné
In memory of:
Private Ernest Gagné
September 1, 1918
Arras, France
Military Service
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
For great gallantry on 16th/17th June 1916 at Mont Sorrel, Ypres, Belgium (London Gazette n° 29719 dated 23 August 1916).
Military Medal
Additional Information
April 11, 1892
Ste-Angèle-de-Mérici, Bas-St-Laurent, Quebec
November 3, 1914
Québec, Quebec
Son of Napoléon Gagné and Rose-de-Lima Corriveau (deceased in 1893). His father remarried to Florentine Ouellet in 1894 and they permanently resided in Ste-Angèle-de-Mérici. Ernest declared being born on 5 April 1893 when he enlisted. He was wounded by a shell fragment to his right side at Chérisy, on 28 August 1918, and he died four days later at the 3rd Field Ambulance, then located at Hospice St-Jean, in Arras.
Commemorated on Page 412 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
Pas de Calais, France
VII. E. 51.
Fabourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, to the south of the road to Doullens.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
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