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Baptized Louis-Henri-Adhémar LaMothe. Son of Charles LaMothe and Régina Branchaud (deceased in 1912), of Montréal, Québec. On the death of his father in 1918 his sister Yolande became his 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. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel from Folkestone and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day. On October 24, 1915, he developed what was believed to be otitis media. On November 23, he was evacuated to England aboard the hospital ship HS Cambria.
Two months after his arrival at the front Louis was returned to England to treat mastoiditis. From complications to complications he finally died eight months later at the West Cliff Canadian Eye and Ear Hospital in Folkestone on July 27, 1916, at 5 h 30 pm, and buried the same day.
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 2 August 1916 -
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From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Louis LaMothe
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Private Louis LaMothe
Digital gallery of
Private Louis LaMothe
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Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY Kent, United Kingdom
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