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Baptized Jean-Baptiste-Oliva Germain. Son of Pierre Germain (deceased in 1902) and Elmire Demers, of St-Jude, St-Hyacinthe, Québec.
On 12 April 1916, in the trenches near Saint-Éloi, Belgium, he was hit by shrapnel to the spine and became paralysed. Eight days later, he was evacuated to England where he died one month later at the Duchess of Connnaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, in Taplow. His headstone is incorrectly engraved “Omer” Germain, instead of “Oliva” Germain.
The month following his death, his younger brother Alcide (service number 243576) enlisted and he was killed in action in France, in April 1918.
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Private Oliva Germain
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Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CLIVEDEN WAR CEMETERY Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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