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Aimé Corbeil

In memory of:

Private Aimé Corbeil

March 9, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

62130

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

October 9, 1891
St-Vincent-de-Paul-de-l’Île-Jésus, Laval, Quebec

Enlistment:

January 12, 1915
Saint-Jean, Quebec

Son of Félix Corbeil and Joséphine Lamer of Pointe-St-Charles (Montréal), Québec.

He and Private Eugène Paquette (service number 120540) were attached to the 5th Canadian Trench Mortar Group and were both killed by a direct artillery hit.

Commemorated on Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. F. 3.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 769 of 818.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 769 of 818.
  • Grave marker– Grave marker

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  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse - 22 March 1917

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    Newspaper clipping
    Newspaper clipping – La Presse - 22 March 1917

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