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Calixte Chouinard

In memory of:

Corporal Calixte Chouinard

August 8, 1918
Vecquemont, Amiens, France

Military Service

Service Number:

62087

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

August 25, 1892
Salem, Massachusetts

Enlistment:

December 4, 1914
St-Jean, Quebec

Son of Henri Chouinard and Malvina Blais, respectively from Salem, Massachusetts, and Montréal (St-Henri), Québec. Calixte was wounded by a piece of shrapnel to the abdomen on 6 August, near Gentelles, in the Amiens area. He died of his wounds two days later at Casualty clearing station n° 5 in Vecquemont.

Commemorated on Page 384 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

V. D. 10.

Location:

Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 137 of 1068.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 137 of 1068.
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