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Son of Pascal Laflamme (died 1919, three weeks after his son) and Joséphine Boucher, of Sherbrooke, Québec. He had declared to be born on December 16th, 1896.
After serving for one year with the 54th Regiment and another year with the 53rd Regiment, he enlisted in the 117th Eastern Township Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On August 14, 1916, he sailed for Great Britain, where he landed on the 24th in Liverpool, England. On October 31, he was assigned to the 150th Battalion, and on November 28, to the 22nd Battalion. With the 150th, he crossed the English Channel on the 29th and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, that same day. On December 4, he joined his new unit in combat in the trenches of the Lens sector, Pas-de-Calais. In February 1917, he fought at Angres and, in April, on Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in his left hand.
Wounded in a hand on April 9th, 1917 at Vimy he was evacuated immediately to England and during his treatment he was diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the sternum and chronic nephritis. He was repatriated and discharged on July 26th, 1918 as permanently medically unfit and died seven months later of tuberculosis. His death was decreed to be service-connected.
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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. -
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Private Joseph Laflamme
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Private Joseph Laflamme
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Laflamme
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Page 537 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHERBROOKE (ST. MICHEL) CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
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