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Noël Lecours

In memory of:

Private Noël Lecours

March 30, 1922
St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Military Service

Service Number:

121470

Age:

24

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Expeditionary Force

Division:

22nd Bn

Additional Information

Born:

December 24, 1897
St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verchères, Quebec

Enlistment:

November 30, 1915
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Jacques-Antoine-Noël Lecours. Son of Antoine Lecours and Albina Berthiaume, of St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verchères, Québec. He had declared to be born on the 25th when he enlisted.

Wounded in the shoulder at Lens on August 15th, 1917, he was evacuated to England and during his hospitalization he also began to suffer from a persistent purulent bronchitis and the beginning of tuberculosis. He was repatriated and discharged from the service on July 23rd, 1918 as permanently medically unfit, never recovered and died three and a half years later. His death was decreed to be attributable to the after-effects of combat gases.

Commemorated on Page 562 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ST. HYACINTHE (NOTRE DAME DE ROSAIRE) CEM.
Quebec, Canada

Grave Reference:

N/A

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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