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In memory of:

Private Joseph Dufour

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Military service

Service number: 61229
Age: 35
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: October 8, 1884 St-Jean-d’Iberville, Québec
Enlistment: October 21, 1914 Montréal, Québec
Death: November 22, 1919 Québec

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Soldiers Plot
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Charles-Magloire Dufour.

Son of Magloire Dufour and Malvina Roch (deceased in 1886), of Montréal, Québec.

His father remarried to Adèle Laurin in 1887. Joseph married Aurore Hugron in 1910 and she died on July 31, 1914. He stated being single when he enlisted but was widowed.

He had heart problems since 1916 and was released from the military in March 1918. He died in November 1919 of heart failure, attributed to his war service.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 533 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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