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Baptized Joseph Donat Brunet. Son of Patrice Brunet and Frézilda Vachon of Montréal (Hochelaga).
Husband of Marie-Louise Primeau of Ottawa, Ontario.Father of René Joseph Alexandre and Rolland Joseph Brunet.
Enlisted in the 77th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was posted to the 163rd Battalion and sent to Bermuda, then to England where he arrived in Liverpool on 6 December 1916. He was posted to the 10th Reserve Battalion as a Sergeant on 7 January 1917. Demoted to Private on 19 April, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on the 20th and landed in France on the 21st. He died in action on 17 July 1917 from wounds sustained in action the same day during the Battle of Lens, on Hill 70.
The spelling of his last name varied in military documents between Brunet and Brunette.
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 209 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.
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