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Louis LaMothe

In memory of:

Private Louis LaMothe

July 27, 1916
Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom

Military Service


Service Number:

61268

Age:

21

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

August 7, 1894
Montréal (Pointe-Claire), Quebec

Enlistment:

October 22, 1914
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Louis-Henri-Adhémar LaMothe. Son of Charles LaMothe and Régina Branchaud (deceased in 1912), of Montréal, Québec. On the death of his father in 1918 his sister Yolande became his next of kin.

Two months after his arrival at the front Louis was returned to England to treat mastoiditis. From complications to complications he finally died eight months later at the West Cliff Canadian Eye and Ear Hospital in Folkestone.

Commemorated on Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
Kent, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

S. 427.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Grave marker
  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse - 2 August 1916
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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