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Lance Corporal Osmond Glorieux Geernaert

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Military service

Service number: 478907
Age: 22
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth: December 31, 1893 Colchester, England
Death: October 9, 1916

Burial/memorial information

ST. SOUPLET BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. C. I.
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Son of Osmond William and Alice Maud (nee Studd) Geernaert, of Prince George, British Columbia. Brother of Private Edward Douglas Geernaert, 7th Battalion, killed in action on 24 April 1915, and Louis Glorieux. Lance Corporal Geernaert also served four years with the United States Marine Corps.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 90 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. SOUPLET BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

St. Souplet is a village about 6 kilometres south of Le Cateau, which is a small town approximately 20 kilometres south-east of Cambrai. ST. SOUPLET BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village after the village of St. Benin.

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