Name: Charles William (Guillaume) Doucette Rank: Private Service Number: 3180252 Service: 85th Battalion, 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: June 27, 1896 Place of Birth: Tusket, Argyle, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: February 11, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Reuben Doucette (Father) Height: 5 feet, 4 ¾ inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown Date of Discharge: June 15, 1919 Age at Discharge: 22 Date of Death: January 31, 1980 Age: 83 Cemetery: Unknown Charles William (Guillaume) Doucette was the son of Reuben (Urbain) Doucette (1864-1957) and Mariah (Hubbard) Doucette (b. 1865) of Tusket, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Charles’ records state he was born in Tusket, others indicate it was in Hubbard’s Point; both in Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS. His siblings were Rose 'Alice' Doucet (1887-1967), John Robert Doucet (1888-1970), Ella Ada Doucet (b. 1890), Mary Adelle Doucet (b. 1890), Anne 'Sarah' Doucette (1892-1964), Louise 'Annie' Doucette (1895-1981), Mary Lena Doucet (1897-1936), and Marion Doucette (b. 1900) His brother John Robert also enlisted to serve in WWI (Service No. 3189970). Charles served in Canada, England, and France. He departed Canada on April 7, 1918, and arrived in United Kingdom on April 19, 1918 at Liverpool, England. He joined the Canadian Machine Gun Corps and transferred to France on November 1, 1918, joining his unit in the Corps, the 4th Battalion on November 13, 1918. He subsequently returned to England, and then home to Canada, and was discharged at demobilization in Halifax, NS, on June 15, 1919. Charles immigrated to the United States in 1923 travelling aboard the fishing schooner Thomas Gorton from Yarmouth, NS to Gloucester on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts. He married Zita S (MacKay) Doucette (1902-1981) in 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the two had three children – Donald Doucette, Shirley Doucette Beckley, Dorothy M. Doucette-Kapust (1933-2012). Charles became a US citizen in the 1930’s, and registered for the US Draft in 1942 in Massachusetts during WWII, but did not serve during the Second World War. He was 46 at the time. Charles died at the age of 83 on January 31, 1980 in Melrose, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.