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Private Alexis Lebeau

Military service

Service number: 62044
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 17, 1888 Valcourt, Shefford, Québec
Enlistment: December 1, 1914 St-Jean, Richelieu, Québec
Death: April 29, 1916 Saint-Éloi, Ypres, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. D. 9.
Additional information

Baptized Cléophas-Alexis Lebeau. Son of Guillaume Lebeau and Marie-Louise Desmarais, of Asbestos, Richmond, Québec. He stated being born on 14 August when he enlisted.

Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was assigned to Company B. 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, France, that same day. He was killed in action on April 29, 1916, in the craters of Saint-Éloi, Ypres, Belgium.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 117 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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