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Baptized Joseph Moïse Godin. Son of Philippe Godin and Rébecca Côté, of Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Mauricie, Québec.
The battalion had just arrived at the front and was only in its third day in the trenches when Moïse peeked over the parapet and was hit by a sniper.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Liverpool, England, on the 29th. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, the same day with Company B. He was killed in action in a trench near Scherpenberg, in Vierstraat, Belgium.
He was the first casualty in the history of this battalion.
Three years later, on 8 August 1918, his brother, Private Rosaire, service number 61361, of the 1st Field Ambulance of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, was also killed in action at Hangard Wood, Belgium.
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Private Moïse Godin
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Private Moïse Godin
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Private Moïse Godin
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Page 16 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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