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Rosario Gregoire
In memory of:
Private Rosario Gregoire
October 1, 1918
Military Service
2129591
21
Army
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
16th Bn.
Additional Information
April 7, 1897
St. Isidore, Quebec
January 12, 1918
Son of Phedime, butcher and baker et Blanche (née Dubuc) Grégoire. In 1915, Phedime, Rosario and brother Willie left Quebec with the prairies as their destination. Phedime worked with a harvest crew in Alberta in 1915. He travelled back to Quebec that same autumn to prepare his family for the move west. In early 1916, the family travelled by train to Winnipeg. They spent the night in the Frontenac Hotel and the next day boarded another train bound for Holland. Here they were met by Rosario. He was survived by brothers Rodolphe, Willie Darcy, Estelle, Dorothee, Laurette and Maurice. Brother Isidore born in 1904 died of appendicitis in 1913. His twin sisters, Jeanne Annette died the day after she was born in 1911 and Rita Yvette died the following year, in 1912. Rosario attended St. Gustave School in Bruxelles, Manitoba. In the summer of 1991, 75 years after the Grégoire family moved to Manitoba, a Grégoire Reunion was held in Somerset for Phedime and Blanche's descendants.
Commemorated on Page 604 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord, France
II. B. 23.
Sancourt is a village in the Department of the Nord 5 kilometres north-west of Cambrai and one kilometre east of the main road to Douai. The SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is about 635 metres north-west of the village on the old Douai-Cambrai road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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