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Baptized Joseph Edmond Larouche. Son of Wenceslas Larouche and Alphéda Bouchard, of Grandes-Bergeronnes, Québec. He had declared to be born on the 8th when he enlisted.
Enlisted in the 167th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was assigned to the 189th Battalion at Camp Valcartier on September 8, 1916. On September 23, he embarked for Great Britain, arriving in Liverpool, England, on October 6. Upon arrival, he was assigned to the 69th Battalion. On January 4, 1917, he was temporarily transferred to the 10th Reserve Battalion, and on April 17 he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion. The following day, he crossed the English Channel and arrived in France. He joined his new unit on April 30 while it was on leave in Arleux-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais. He was killed in action on November 9, 1917, during a German artillery barrage on Abraham Heights in the course of the Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium.
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Page 272 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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