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René Deschênes

In memory of:

Private René Deschênes

August 9, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

448898

Age:

38

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Citation(s):

Military Medal (awarded posthumously) for bravery at the Battle of Amiens on August 8, 1918 (Supplement to the London Gazette January 24, 1919).

Honours and Awards:

Military Medal

Additional Information

Born:

December 17, 1879
Betsiamites, Côte-Nord, Quebec

Enlistment:

December 13, 1915
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Joseph-Irénée Deschênes.

Son of Jean « John » Deschênes and Aurélie Hudon-dit-Beaulieu (deceased in 1884) of Betsiamites, Côte-Nord, and Matane, Bas-St-Laurent, Québec.

His father remarried Marguerite Blouin in Matane in 1888 and they the emigrated to the United States in the early 1890’s.

René Deschênes first enrolled in Winnipeg in June 1915 (service number 460707) and he re-enrolled in Montréal in December 1915 (service number 448898).

Commemorated on Page 396 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

III. BB. 4.

Location:

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of death registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 941 of 1036. He was buried in Asylum Cemetery (Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road). After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.

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    Circumstances of death registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 941 of 1036. He was buried in Asylum Cemetery (Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road). After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
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