Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Eugène Paquette
In memory of:
Private Eugène Paquette
March 9, 1917
Military Service
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
July 22, 1891
Montréal (Notre-Dame), Quebec
August 21, 1915
Montréal, Quebec
Son of Eugène Paquette and Sarah Deslauriers of Montréal, Québec. Husband of Marie-Anne Beauregard of Waterloo and Montréal, Québec.
Eugène Paquette and Private Aimé Corbeil (service number 62130) were attached to the 5th Canadian Trench Mortar Group and were both killed by a direct artillery hit.
Commemorated on Page 305 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
IV. F. 2.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Newspaper clipping – La Presse - 23 March 1917
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