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Abel Beaudry

In memory of:

Lieutenant Abel Beaudry

September 15, 1916
Courcelette, France

Military Service


Age:

31

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

July 25, 1885
Los Angeles, California

Enlistment:

September 28, 1915
Valcartier, Quebec

Baptized Abel-Charles-Prudent Beaudry. Son of Victor Beaudry (deceased in 1888) and Angelina Leblanc, of Montréal, Québec.

Commemorated on Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

II. D. 6.

Location:

Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada.  CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames:  Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151.  Page 295 of 724.
  • Newspaper Clipping– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
  • Photo of ABEL BEAUDRY
  • Poem
  • Grave marker
  • Newspaper clipping– La Patrie - 25 September 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– La Patrie - 30 September 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse - 25 September 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse - 3 October 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse - 25 October 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– Le Canada - 4 October 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– Le Devoir - 27 September 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– Le Devoir - 3 October 1916
  • Newspaper clipping
  • Honour Roll– From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918".  McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

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