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Joseph Laurin

In memory of:

Private Joseph Laurin

December 13, 1940

Military Service


Service Number:

E/5777

Age:

55

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information


Born:

August 17, 1885
Brockville, Ontario

Enlistment:

June 11, 1940
Quebec, Quebec

Baptized Joseph-Alexandre Laurin. Son of Joseph Laurin (deceased in 1897) and Mary-Augusta Moore, of Pembrooke, Ontario.

Married in 1907 to Joséphine Paquette, of St-Jean-Deschaillons, Lotbinière, Québec.

He was a veteran of the First World War (service number 1003855) and stated being born on August 10, 1896 when he enrolled in 1940.

He died of wounds after being hit by an ambulance.

Commemorated on Page 15 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Surrey, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

30. A. 9.

Location:

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres. In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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