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Zénon Diotte (Guillot-Dit-Diotte)

In memory of:

Private Zénon Diotte (Guillot-Dit-Diotte)

June 9, 1918
Arras, France

Military Service

Service Number:

889405

Age:

20

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

July 9, 1897
Grande-Rivière, Gaspésie, Quebec

Enlistment:

April 26, 1916
Gaspé, Quebec

Baptized Louis-Zénon Guillot. Son of Marie-Anne Méthot (deceased in 1909 ) and Zéphirin Guillot (remarried to Hélène Collin in 1910, he died in 1915), of Grande-Rivière, Gaspésie. He stated being born on 9 June 1896 when he enlisted and named his brother Omer, of St-Majorique, Gaspésie, as next of kin.

In genealogy documents, this family last name changed from « Noël » to « Guillot » and to « Diotte ».

Zénon was seriously wounded during the assault on Vimy Ridge, on 9 April 1917, and had been evacuated in England. After a year, on 8 April 1918, he returned to France and, on 4 June, rejoined his unit in the trenches of Neuville-Vitasse. Four days later, he was wounded from shrapnel and had his left leg severely cut. He died of his wounds the next day at the 2/1st London Field Ambulance, in Arras.

Commemorated on Page 398 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

DAINVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

I. F. I.

Location:

Dainville is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the western outskirts of Arras on the road to Doullens (N.25). The DAINVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY lies about one kilometre west of the village at the end of a track running north from the road to Warlus (D.59).

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: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 593 of 1084

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