Military service
Burial/memorial information
Conscripted on 15 November 1917, number 835 86 DC in Montreal, Quebec, he was enrolled on 12 February 1918 in the 2nd Quebec Regiment. Arriving in England on 28 April 1918, he was posted to the 10th Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. On 8 September, he arrived in France with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles and on the 11th was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, which he joined in the front line on the 12th. He was killed in action on 2 October 1918 during the Battle of Cambrai, France, during a German counter-attack on Cagnicourt.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 305 of 934 -
Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse 29 October 1918 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Louis Bourassa
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Bourassa
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Bourassa
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Bourassa
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 371 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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