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Willie Lapointe

In memory of:

Private Willie Lapointe

January 31, 1918
Aux-Rietz, France

Military Service

Service Number:

61650

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

March 3, 1895
St-Jérôme, Terrebonne, Quebec

Enlistment:

January 28, 1915
St-Jean, Quebec

Baptized Joseph-Guillaume Lapointe and nicknamed "Willie". Son of Adolphe Lapointe and Emma Gascon, of Montréal and St-Jérôme, Québec. He had declared to be born on March 9th, 1891 when he enlisted.

Willie was in the machine gun section of the battalion and on the fateful day he was tending his horse in the unit's corral near Vimy. He was then kicked in the stomach by another horse and died of his wounds during his evacuation to the 6th Field Ambulance which was stationed at Aux-Rietz.

Commemorated on Page 445 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

I. G. 31.

Location:

Neuville-St Vaast is a village 6.5 kilometres north of Arras, a little east of the road from Bethune to Arras. LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village on the north-west side of the road to the village of Maroeuil.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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