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Enlisted in the 178th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for Great Britain on 1 March 1917, arriving on the 15th. On 15 April, he was transferred first to the 10th Reserve Battalion, then to the 22nd Battalion on 27 August 1917. He landed in France on the 31st. From 1 May 1918 to 28 May, he was on temporary loan to the 2nd Canadian Divisional Machine Gun Battalion.
His battalion was on the move towards the Amiens sector, and during a two day break in Picquigny, Léopold drowned while swimming in the Somme River. His headstone bears the inscription “Believed to be”. This could be explained because his battalion had to keep going and when his body was recovered, he could not be formally identified.
Digital gallery of Private Léo Paul Chartrand
Digital gallery of
Private Léo Paul Chartrand
Digital gallery of
Private Léo Paul Chartrand
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 383 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME Somme, France
Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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