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Military service
Service number:
856594
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
July 7, 1893
Ste-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Rouville, Québec
Enlistment:
July 18, 1916
Sherbrooke, Québec
Death:
August 8, 1918
Wiencourt-l’Équipée, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C. 21.
Additional information
Baptized Ephrem-Berchmans Paquette. Son of Arthur Paquette and Rose-Anna Malo, of Ste-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Rouville, Quebec. He attested that he was born on the 8th when he enlisted.
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Sherbrooke Monument
Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names. -
Wartime diary
Extracts from the War Journal of the 22nd Battalion and the 5th Brigade concerning the operations on the date of his death. -
Circumstances of death registers
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Private Berchmans Paquette
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Private Berchmans Paquette
Digital gallery of
Private Berchmans Paquette
Digital gallery of
Private Berchmans Paquette
Digital gallery of
Private Berchmans Paquette
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TORONTO CEMETERY Somme, France
Demuin is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce to the east of Domart. TORONTO CEMETERY is 2 kilometres north of Demuin village, in the fields.
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