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Private Johnny Dubé

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Military service

Service number: 61020
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: May 9, 1892 Chicoutimi (Saguenay)
Enlistment: November 6, 1914
Death: July 17, 1916 Southampton, United Kingdom

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NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: C.E. 1815.
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Baptized Joseph-John-Welly Dubé. Son of Féréol Dubé and Marie Gaudreault, of Chicoutimi (Saguenay), Québec. He signed “Johnny” for his first name when he enlisted.

On 17 June 1916, in front line trenches in Mont Sorrel, Ypres, Belgium, Corporal Dubé was hit by shrapnel in the back and legs. After three weeks of intensive care in France, he was evacuated in England, at the Southampton University War Hospital, where his left leg was amputated. He died there eight days later from complications.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY Hampshire, United Kingdom

The Netley Military Cemetery is located in Hound, a parish and village on Southampton Water, 4 miles south-east of Southampton. It is a permanent Ministry of Defence cemetery of 17 acres, attached to the Royal Victoria Hospital. It was used during both world wars for burials from the hospital. It lies within a park maintained by Hampshire County Council on the site of the former hospital, and access is by way of a private road with a lockable security barrier.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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