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Baptized Joseph-Pierre Gagnon.
Son of Louis Gagnon and late Célanire Lemelin, of Hawkesbury, Prescott, Ontario.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was assigned to Company A, with service number 28589 replaced by 61934. Illiterate, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. From Folkestone, on September 15, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, on the same day with the first contingent of this unit. He was seriously wounded in combat on March 17, 1916, in the lower back, kidneys, and groin by a bullet during fighting in the craters of St-Éloi, Belgium. He was evacuated to England on the 31st and died of his wounds on April 18, 1916, at 2:55 a.m., at the 1st London General Hospital in Camberwell, London.
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Page 89 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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