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Baptized Jacques-Antoine-Noël Lecours. Son of Antoine Lecours and Albina Berthiaume, of St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verchères, Québec. He had declared to be born on the 25th when he enlisted.
Enlisted in the 69th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on April 17, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. On June 28, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion. On September 18, he suffered abrasions to his feet and was hospitalized until October 13, when he was transferred to the 1st Canadian Labor Battalion. He crossed the English Channel on January 11, 1917, and landed in Le Havre, Normandy, France. On June 25, he returned to the 22nd Battalion. From July 26 to 31, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. On August 15, he was wounded in action by shrapnel to his left shoulder during the Battle of Lens and was gassed. On September 3, he was evacuated to England. While hospitalized, he contracted purulent pneumonia. On June 6, 1918, he was repatriated to Canada, where he arrived on the 17th. On the 20th, he was admitted to Drummond Military Hospital in Montreal. He died on March 30, 1922, in St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, where he was buried on April 2 of that year.
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Private Noël Lecours
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Page 562 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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