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Israël Larocque

In memory of:

Private Israël Larocque

August 8, 1918
Marcelcave, La Somme, France

Military Service


Service Number:

416280

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Division:

2nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

October 21, 1895
Michigan

Enlistment:

February 18, 1915
Hull, Outaouais, Quebec

Son of Hyacinthe Larocque and Arthémise Lafontaine, of Rochon, Outaouais, Québec.

He married to Florence Dicker in England in May 1918 and was killed in action three months later; a son was born of that union.

His attestation paper does not specify his place of birth in the State of Michigan, but one of his sister was born and died in 1891 in a place called Cheboygan.

Commemorated on Page 446 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

I. A. 14.

Location:

Villers-Bretonneux is a village in the Department of the Somme, on the road from Amiens to St Quentin. CRUCIFIX CORNER CEMETERY is south of the village at the crossing of the road to Demuin and the road from Cachy to Marcelcave.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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