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Baptized Joseph-Pius Lamoureux. Son of Frédéric Lamoureux (deceased in 1914) and Élisa Bénard, of Ste-Julie-de-Verchères, St-Amable-de-Verchères, Montréal and Longueuil, Québec. At the time of his enlistment he had declared that he did not know his date of birth but this was traced using his mother's maiden name which appears on her will.

On August 16th 1918, east of Chilly, during a push into the enemy lines he was seriously wounded in one eye and one knee and taken prisoner. He died of his wounds eleven days later in a German field hospital at Tincourt and is buried in the local German cemetery (grave number 36). The location of his grave could not later be located and he is now commemorated on a memorial and headstone at Tincourt New British Cemetery.

Commemorated on Page 445 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.