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Military service
Service number:
62189
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
May 30, 1887
Mont-St-Grégoire, Iberville
Enlistment:
January 9, 1915
St-Jean
Death:
June 11, 1916
Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Fabien Bessette. Son of Philippe Bessette and Angelina Denicourt (who died in 1893).
His father remarried to Hermine Leclair and moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island.
On 22 May 1916, after a period of illness, he joined his unit in action in the trenches of the St-Éloi sector in Belgium. He was initially reported missing, but was later declared killed in action on 11 June during the fighting at Zillebeke-Mont-Sorrel, in the Ypres salient in Belgium.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Bessette
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Bessette
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