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Baptized Joseph-Charles-Lucien Guilbert. Son of Charles-Auguste Guilbert (deceased in 1895) and Eugénie Robichon (deceased in 1889), of Trois-Rivières. He stated being born in 1878 when he enlisted. He named his older brother Oscar, of Trois-Rivières, as next-of-kin and heir.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed on the 29th in Plymouth, England. On September 15 of that year, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was killed in action on October 9, 1915, in the craters at Kemmel, near St-Éloi, Belgium. He was buried that same day. On December 9, his body was exhumed and reburied at La Laiterie Cemetery in Belgium.
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Private Charles Guilbert
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Private Charles Guilbert
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Private Charles Guilbert
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Private Charles Guilbert
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Private Charles Guilbert
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Private Charles Guilbert
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 17 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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