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Private Édouard Guertin

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Military service

Service number: 121559
Age: 17
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 20, 1898 Ste-Hélène-de-Bagot
Enlistment: December 15, 1915
Death: October 26, 1916 Angres, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: K. 20.
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Baptized Louis-Édouard Guertin. Son of Louis-Victor Guertin and Gertrude Blanchard. He stated being born on 20 October 1897 when he enlisted.

He arrived in France on 28 September 1916, and he joined the 22nd Battalion at the front on 16 October. Ten days later, he was killed in action by a large shell while being in a communication trench at « Lawson Crater », near Angres.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 96 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Aix-Noulette lies about 16 kilometres north of Arras about 2 kilometres south-west of Bully-les-Mines on the road from Arras to Bethune. TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres east of the village.

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