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Baptized Joseph-Pius Lamoureux. Son of Frédéric Lamoureux (deceased in 1914) and Élisa Bénard, of Ste-Julie-de-Verchères, St-Amable-de-Verchères, Montréal and Longueuil, Québec. At the time of his enlistment he had declared that he did not know his date of birth but this was traced using his mother's maiden name which appears on her will.
Enlisted in the 206th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on May 26, he set sail for Bermuda, where he arrived on the 29th. He departed from there on November 18, stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 26th, and set off for Great Britain on the 27th. He landed in Liverpool, England, on December 6 with the 163rd Battalion. On February 27, 1917, he was assigned to the 150th Battalion of the Mount Royal Carabiniers in Shoreham. On February 18, 1918, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and crossed the English Channel on the 28th to land in France. He joined his new unit in combat in the Arras sector, Pas-de-Calais.
On August 16th 1918, east of Chilly, during a push into the enemy lines he was seriously wounded in one eye and one knee and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds eleven days later in a German field hospital at Tincourt and is buried in the local German cemetery (grave number 36). The location of his grave could not later be located and he is now commemorated on a memorial and headstone at Tincourt New British Cemetery.
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La Presse 10 December 1918
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Private Joseph Lamoureux
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Private Joseph Lamoureux
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Private Joseph Lamoureux
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Private Joseph Lamoureux
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 445 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Tincourt is a village about 7 kilometres east of Peronne and TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY is on the west side of the village, just off the D199.
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