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Baptized Louis Cyrille Ferdinand Lavoie. Son of Sylvio Lavoie and Lucia Rioux, of Le Bic, Rimouski, Québec. Brother of Privates Joseph Lavoie and Lucien Lavoie. They survived the war.
Enlisted in Company B of the Royal 22nd Regiment, he stated that he had served with the Fusilier du Saint-Laurent from July 1938 until his enlistment in 1939. He sailed for Great Britain on December 9, 1939, and disembarked at Greenock, Scotland, on the 18th. On August 1, 1940, he shot himself in the chest while on guard duty. He was transported to the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford, Surrey, England, where he died on the 2nd at 9:03 p.m. He was buried on the 6th at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, in grave number 202326, which was later renumbered 3.O.7.
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Private Louis Lavoie
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Private Louis Lavoie
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Private Louis Lavoie
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Page 15 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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