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Enlisted in the 57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion on 13 October 1915. He arrived in Plymouth, England on 28 October and was transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion on 29 February 1916, then to the 69th Battalion on 13 July and to the 22nd Battalion on 27 September. Arriving in France on the 29th, he died on 9 April 1917 of wounds sustained in action during the assault on Vimy Ridge in the Souchez and Scarpe river area.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
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Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
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Lance Corporal Joseph Étienne Chénard
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.
Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
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