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Military service
Service number:
889630
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
December 2, 1878
Ste-Flavie, Bas St-Laurent, Québec
Enlistment:
February 5, 1916
Mont-Joli, Bas St-Laurent, Québec
Death:
November 9, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Louis Rousseau (deceased 1915) and Marguerite Ross, of Baie-des-Sables, Bas St-Laurent, Québec. Husband of Marie-Louise Michaud, of Plourde-de-Métis, Bas St-Laurent, Québec. He attested that he was born on September 3, 1878.
Digital gallery of Private Léon Rousseau
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
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Wartime diary
Extrait du Journal de guerre du 22e Bataillon qui donne des détails sur les circonstances de sa mort.
Digital gallery of
Private Léon Rousseau
Digital gallery of
Private Léon Rousseau
Digital gallery of
Private Léon Rousseau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 319 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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