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Enlisted in the 57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Plymouth, England, on 28 June, 1915. Initially transferred to the 23rd Battalion, he was later transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 30 November 1915. The next day he landed at Le Havre, Normandy, France. On 21 September 1916, he was shot in the hip and treated at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais. From 14 February to 12 March 1917, he was on temporary loan to the 5th Canadian Machine Gun Company. Returning to the 22nd Battalion, he was killed in action in the Souchez and Scarpe River area during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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Private Joseph Charest
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 215 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.
Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
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