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Baptized Joseph-Irénée Deschênes.
Son of Jean « John » Deschênes and Aurélie Hudon-dit-Beaulieu (deceased in 1884) of Betsiamites, Côte-Nord, and Matane, Bas-St-Laurent, Québec.
His father remarried Marguerite Blouin in Matane in 1888 and they the emigrated to the United States in the early 1890’s.
René Deschênes first enlisted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on June 15, 1915 (service number 460707). He was considered a deserter. He reenlisted in Montreal on December 13, 1915 (service number 448898).
After enlisting for the second time, he left for England on June 2, 1916, with the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He arrived on the 8th and from that date served with the 69th Reserve Battalion. He was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on September 27, 1916, and landed in France on October 14. He was mortally wounded in action on August 8, 1918, during the Battle of Amiens. He was taken to the 1st Canadian Field Ambulance for first aid, then to the 48th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in Dury, where he died on the 9th.
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Page 396 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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