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Édouard Villeneuve

In memory of:

Private Édouard Villeneuve

December 25, 1916
Angres, France

Military Service


Service Number:

120972

Age:

18

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

January 12, 1898
St-Canut, Deux-Montagnes, Quebec

Enlistment:

September 10, 1915
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Jules-Édouard Villeneuve. Son of Adrien Villeneuve and Marie Bourgeois (d. 1910), of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was born in 1897 when he enlisted and he had named his aunt and godmother, Miss Rose-Délima Bougeois as next of kin.

Commemorated on Page 176 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

K. 9.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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