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Baptized Eustache-Rosario Gingras. Son of Amédée Gingras and Onésime Loiselle, of Montréal, Québec.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel from Folkestone and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, on the same day. He was killed in action on April 17, 1916, in the craters of Saint-Éloi, Ypres, Belgium.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Rosaire Gingras
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 26 April 1916 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Sergeant Rosaire Gingras
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Rosaire Gingras
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Rosaire Gingras
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 92 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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