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CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

Posted: 5 Dec 2013 3:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: CHARLEBOIS
Hilaire CHARLEBOIS is a First World War war dead whose burial location is currently unknown. He was born at L’Original, (near Hawkesbury), ON in 1872. At the time of his enlistment he was residing at 449 Rue Beaubien, Montreal. His Next of Kin was listed as his wife, Celine CHARLEBOIS who was residing at 486 Mount Royal Ave. or 689 rue Beaubien, Montreal at the time of her husband’s death. His religion was RC. He was serving at the Engineer Training Depot, Ottawa. He died in Montreal on 29 April 1916 at the age of 41 in accordance with the obituary from La Presse dated Monday 1 May 1916. He is believed to be buried in Montrael, QC and it has been confirmed that he is not in Notre Dame des Neiges or Mount Royal.

If you have information regarding burial location, please contact the Canadian Agency of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at cwgc-canada@vac-acc.gc.ca because we are responsible for the commemoration of service men and women who died while serving Commonwealth forces during the First and Second World Wars.

Re: CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 6:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Jul 2015 4:06PM GMT
The results of the search for Hilaire Charlebois are now posted at the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group Forum:

http://cefresearch.ca/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=13094

The DROUIN files show his burial in Hawkesbury, Ontario in the "St-Alphonse de Liguori" parish cemetery, That parish may now be called "Paroisse Sain-Pierre-Apotre".

Details of his exact grave have yet to be determined.

If you have any additional information or correction on this file, please contact the CEFSG.

Richard Laughton
Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
rlaughton@cefresearch.ca

Re: CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 9:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: CHARLEBOIS
His obituary in the Ottawa Citizen indicates that his body was sent to Montreal for interment.

Another possibility - there is a Hilaire CHARLEBOIS in Notre Dame Roman Catholic Cemetery in Ottawa, according to http://ocfa.islandnet.com/ocfa-search.php
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Re: CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 10:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Interesting, his military death record say he died in St Luke's Hospital Ottawa !!! of Pneumonia

Grave number is C4476
wife at 449 Beubien St Montreal

Re: CHARLEBOIS, Hilaire – Sapper – Service # 504898

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 4:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Jul 2015 4:16PM GMT
Thanks for providing a copy of the notice. That has been added to the information already collected and posted to his page at:

http://cefresearch.ca/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=13094

The Circumstance of Death Card is posted there as well as the DROUIN report.

We have yet to determine the location of the files that relate to the grave numbers (i.e. Grave number is C4476). Our analysis suggests the "C" refers to burial in Canada as it is common on all such files. We believe that somewhere there is a ledger with the numbers matched to the burial locations. An earlier assumption that the "C" was for "cremation" was determined to be incorrect.

Richard
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