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Louis Fournier

In memory of:

Private Louis Fournier

August 11, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

448474

Age:

43

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

August 3, 1875
St-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Quebec

Enlistment:

November 22, 1915
Sherbrooke, Quebec

Baptized Louis-Napoléon Fournier.

Son of Louis Fournier and Sophie Turgeon (deceased in 1889), of St-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec.

Husband and widowed of Léontine Labrie, of St-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, and Chicopee, Massachusetts.

He stated being born in 1878 when he enlisted.

Commemorated on Page 410 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

VIA. B. 12.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Sherbrooke Monument– Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names.

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    Sherbrooke Monument – Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names.
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