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Baptized Joseph-Amédée-Anthyme Guimond. Son of Eugénie Létourneau (deceased in 1900) and Amédée Guimond (remarried in 1909 to Marie-Rose-Laura Cormier; he died in 1914), of St-Pierre-de-Montmagny, Québec and Campbellton, New Brunswick. He named his sister Alida, of Montmagny, as next of kin.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. From Folkestone on September 15, he crossed over to France, landing in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day. He was wounded in the head in action on November 14, 1915, in the Ypres sector, Belgium. He returned to his unit on January 3, 1916. He was seriously wounded in action on April 18, 1917, at Acheville during the Battle of Vimy Ridge in France, in the Souchez and Scarpe river sector. He died at Neuville-St-Vaast on the same day.
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Private Joseph Guimond
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Page 248 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.
Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
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