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Baptized Louis-Édouard Guertin. Son of Louis-Victor Guertin and Gertrude Blanchard. He stated being born on 20 October 1897 when he enlisted. During World War I, Louis Victor enlisted on July 3, 1918, at Camp Valcartier, located north of Quebec City, Quebec, with the 2nd Battalion Depot of the 2nd Quebec Regiment, under service number 3165427. He was assigned to the 259th Battalion of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force. On December 21, in Vancouver, British Columbia, he embarked for Vladivostok, Siberia, where he arrived on January 12, 1919. He returned to Canada in May without ever seeing combat. He was demobilized on the 14th in Montreal. He was awarded the Siberian Service Medal, the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal.
He enlisted in the 69th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, sailed for Great Britain on April 17, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. On September 27, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, and on the 28th, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. He arrived in France on 28 September 1916, and he joined the 22nd Battalion at the front on 16 October. Ten days later, he was killed in action by a large shell while being in a communication trench at « Lawson Crater », near Angres.
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Page 96 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Aix-Noulette lies about 16 kilometres north of Arras about 2 kilometres south-west of Bully-les-Mines on the road from Arras to Bethune. TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres east of the village.
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