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Military service
Service number:
660188
Age:
49
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
January 18, 1869
Sainte-Martine, Châteauguay, Québec
Enlistment:
January 27, 1916
Montréal, Québec
Death:
June 5, 1918
Neuville-Vitasse, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. G. 21.
Additional information
Baptized Joachim Touchette but later changed his name to “Wilfrid”. Son of Joachim Touchette (died 1899) and Domithilde Laberge, of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was single and was born on January 15, 1878 but he was in fact widowed since 1911 of Diana Giroux and father of a daughter, Alexina-Délisca, born 1891.
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Coupure de presse
La Presse July 24, 1918 -
Pierre tombale
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Private Wilfrid Touchette
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Private Wilfrid Touchette
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 513 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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