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Private Israël Larocque

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Military service

Service number: 416280
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: October 21, 1895
Enlistment: February 18, 1915
Death: August 8, 1918 Marcelcave, La Somme, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 14.
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Son of Hyacinthe Larocque and Arthémise Lafontaine, of Rochon, Outaouais, Québec.

He married to Florence Dicker in England in May 1918 and was killed in action three months later; a son was born of that union.

His attestation paper does not specify his place of birth in the State of Michigan, but one of his sister was born and died in 1891 in a place called Cheboygan.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 446 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CRUCIFIX CORNER CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village in the Department of the Somme, on the road from Amiens to St Quentin. CRUCIFIX CORNER CEMETERY is south of the village at the crossing of the road to Demuin and the road from Cachy to Marcelcave.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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