Private Alphonse Doucet

He had stated he was born in St-Cuthbert in 1894 when he enlisted.

Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 48633, he was assigned to the 41st Battalion on a date not specified in the file. He crossed over to England with this unit on October 16, 1915, and landed at Plymouth on the 28th. He transferred to the 23rd Battalion on April 20, 1916, then to the 22nd Battalion on June 28 of that year, service number 417209. He arrived in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, on June 29 and went to the front line on July 13. He was slightly wounded in combat on August 6, 1916, in Vierstraat, Ypres, Belgium. On August 25, he was assigned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion until a date not mentioned in the file. On April 9, 1917, he was wounded again in combat on Vimy Ridge, France, this time in the finger, while serving with the 22nd Battalion. On November 10, 1918, he was admitted to a hospital in Paris for treatment of influenza. He died of Spanish influenza four days after the end of the war.