Military service
Service number:
231462
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Battalion
Birth:
November 19, 1887
Battleford, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
April 24, 1916
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
October 30, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. A. 28.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Mary DeCoteau, of Battleford, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander DeCoteau
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Photo 2 of Alexander Decoteau
Alexander Decoteau in his Shamrock Athletic Club vest (c. 1912) -
Attestation paper
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Photo of Alexander Decoteau
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Newspaper Clipping
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Grave Marker
Photo of grave marker courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England. -
Grave Marker
Passchendaele New British Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Entrance
Passchendaele New British Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Passchendaele New British Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Essay (Page 1)
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Essay (Page 2)
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Presentation in front of grave on April 10, 2017
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Presentation in front of grave on November 12, 2017
Teghan Angulalik making a presentation at Alex Decoteau's grave at a special ceremony at Passchendaele New British Cemetery on Sunday, November 12, 2017. Credit: VAC photo -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTAN CES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 361 of 1036. Body left on the Field, Passchendaele Ridge. -
Grave marker
1 May 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) cefrg.ca -
Grave marker
21 April 2015, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) cefrg.ca
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander DeCoteau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 226 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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