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Corporal Calixte Chouinard

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Military service

Service number: 62087
Age: 25
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 25, 1892 Salem
Enlistment: December 4, 1914
Death: August 8, 1918 Vecquemont, Amiens, France

Burial/memorial information

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Grave reference: V. D. 10.
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Son of Henri Chouinard and Malvina Blais, respectively from Salem, Massachusetts, and Montréal (St-Henri), Québec. Calixte was wounded by a piece of shrapnel to the abdomen on 6 August, near Gentelles, in the Amiens area. He died of his wounds two days later at Casualty clearing station n° 5 in Vecquemont.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 384 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME Somme, France

Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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