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Private Alexander Bradshaw

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Military service

Service number: 121803
Age: 37
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 8, 1879 Terrebonne, Québec
Enlistment: March 9, 1916 Montréal, Québec
Death: March 31, 1917 Dannes, Pas-de-Calais, France

Burial/memorial information

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXII. D. II.
Additional information
Baptized Marie-Antoine-Alexandre Bradshaw. Son of Jean-Baptiste-Napoléon Bradshaw and Sophie Brière (deceased in 1906). His father remarried to Mélina Lapointe in 1908 and he lived in Terrebonne. Alexandre stated being born in Montréal when he enlisted.

Alexandre was severely wounded to the head on 21 March 1918, in the trenches of « La Folie », North-West of Vimy, and was evacuated the same day. He died of his wounds ten days later at No. 22 General Hospital in Dannes, near Étaples.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

Related media

First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 206 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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