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Baptized Joseph Ernest GagnéSon 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.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. On September 15, he left for France, arriving in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day. On June 15, 1916, he was wounded by gunfire in his left arm, left thigh, and right hand. He was evacuated to England on the 30th. From November 14 to December 4, 1916, he was assigned to the 1st Canadian Camp Training Base. On January 29, 1917, he was incorporated into the 10th Reserve Battalion. On March 28, 1918, he returned on paper to the 22nd Battalion, while being loaned to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp from April 3 to June 8, 1918. He returned to the front line on the 12th with his combat unit. He was wounded a second time by shrapnel on his right side and shoulder on August 28, 1918. He was transported to the 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance, where he died on September 1, 1918.
He was awarded the Military Medal for rescuing Lieutenant Jacques Brosseau, who was seriously wounded, under intense enemy fire, and for treating his comrades under German fire, even though he had no shelter.
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Page 412 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS Pas de Calais, France
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.
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