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Private Édouard Drolet

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Military service

Service number: 61584
Age: 35
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: January 7, 1880 Québec (St-Jean-Baptiste)
Enlistment: April 13, 1915
Death: July 22, 1915 Monks Horton, Kent, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: C. 118.
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Baptized Joseph-Édouard-Narcisse Drolet. Son of Marie-Henriette Légaré (deceased in 1883) and Augustin Drolet (remarried to Emma-Mathilde Légaré in 1885), of Québec (St-Jean-Baptiste), Québec. Married to Ida Guertin in 1910, of Helena, Montana. He stated being single when he enlisted.

He was stationed with his unit in East Sandling Camp, Kent, England, and he died of cardiac failure during a route march on the Monks Horton road. His death was pronounced at the Shorncliffe Military Hospital.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY Kent, United Kingdom

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