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Private Rosario Chartrand

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Military service

Service number: 120106
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: October 5, 1892 Montréal (Notre-Dame)
Enlistment: August 7, 1915
Death: May 29, 1917 Bruay-la-Bussière, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. B. 24.
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Baptized Joseph-Rosario-Armand Chartrand. Son of Philias Chartrand (deceased in 1906) and Alphonsine Sigouin, of Montréal, Québec. His mother remarried to Joseph Lajoie in 1914 and later moved to Ste-Marie-Salomé, Montcalm, Québec. Rosario stated being born on 4 October 1892 when he enlisted.

Enlisted in the 69th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for England, arriving in Liverpool on 28 April 1916. On 27 August, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and arrived in France on the 28th.

Severely wounded by shrapnel on 28 May 1917, while he was digging a communication trench near Thélus, he was evacuated to casualty No. 6 clearing station located in Bruay-la-Bussière, where he died the next day.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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