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Son of Édouard Lacroix and Delphine Boisvert, both of La Tuque and deceased in 1910. He named his brother Donat, the eldest of the family, as his closest relative.
Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 41st Battalion on October 8, 1915, and sailed for Great Britain on the 18th, arriving in Plymouth, England, on the 28th. On February 29, 1916, he was assigned to the 23rd Reserve Battalion, and on April 15, to the 22nd Battalion. On the 16th, he crossed the English Channel from Folkestone and landed in France that same day with the 23rd Battalion. On May 4, 1916, he went to the front lines with the 22nd.
Wounded very seriously in the head at Courcelette on September 18th, 1916, he was immediately evacuated to England to the Horton (County of London) War Hospital. He never recovered from his wounds and died there after three months.
Aimé Lacroix was from the Atikamekw Nation and on November 11th, 2012, Remembrance Day, he was the first Aboriginal veteran to receive the Quebec National Assembly Medal (Source: Veterans Affairs Canada).
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Memorial plaque at Epsom Cemetery in England.
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Private Aimé Lacroix
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Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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EPSOM CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
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