Name: Jean Ernest Gaudet Rank: Private Service Number: 282666 Service: 219th Battalion / 161st Battalion / 47th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Date of Birth: August 13, 1898 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Date of Birth: March 9, 1916 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Main St, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 17 Occupation: Student Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Edward Gaudet (Father) Date of Discharge: June 15, 1919 (at Halifax, NS) Age: 20 Date of Death: May 21, 1985 Age: 86 Cemetery: Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Jean (John) Ernest Gaudet was the son of Edward Mack Gaudet (1865-1938) and Mary Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ (Thibodeau) Gaudet (1871-1932), and the brother of Seraphie Lillian (Sarah) Gaudet (1891-1973), Anne Agnes (Annie) Gaudet (1893-1956), Louis Malcolm Gaudet (1894-1972) Adolphe Stephen Gaudet (1896- 1938), Antoine Camille Gaudet (1898-1906), André “Andrew” Uriel Gaudet (1902-1971), James Isidore Gaudet (1904-1986), Victor Pius Gaudet (1906-1910), Mildred Madeleine Gaudet (1908-1991), Victor- Antoine Gaudet (1910-1980), and Michel Bernard Gaudet (1913-1976). Both of Jean’s brothers served during the First World War. Louis Malcolm Gaudet served with the Canadian Forestry Corps and Adolphe Stephen Gaudet served with the 165th Battalion. Jean was the husband of Mary Irene Doucette (1898-1991) and the father of Edward R Gaudet (1921- 1944), George P. Gaudet (1923-1944), Phyllis Irene (Gaudet) Mullins (1927-2023), Elizabeth (Gaudet) Alliot, David A Gaudet, and Gregory Ernest Gaudet. Both his sons First Lieutenant Edward R. Gaudet and Flight Officer George P. Gaudet were killed serving with the USAAF during WWII in June and October of 1944, respectively. Jean first enlisted with the 219th Battalion and travelled to England on the SS Olympic arriving October 18, 1916. Jean was posted to the 17 Reserve Battalion on January 3, 1917, and assigned to the 161st Battalion on February 8, 1917, before being transferred to the 47th Battalion on March 1, 1918. He served in Canada, England, France, and Belgium. Jean joined his unit in the field on March 9, 1918, and was wounded by a gunshot or gun shrapnel (artillery shell) wound to the left shoulder on August 12, 1918. He was evacuated the following day, August 13, and recuperated at Rouen, Trouville, and Étaples. After recovering, he rejoined his unit in the field on October 5, 1918. Jean was granted 14 days' leave in the UK starting December 12, 1918, returning to his unit on December 28. Later, he was given another 10- day leave, which he spent in Belgium. He proceeded to England May 4, 1919, and returned to Canada on the SS Adriatic. He was discharged June 15, 1919 at Halifax, NS. Jean did not serve in WWII but did complete a draft registration on February 16, 1942. He was living at 15 Montrose Street in Somerville and employed with the railway at South Station in Boston, Mass at the time. In 1950, he continued to work with the railway; employed as a Stock Clerk. His daughter Elizabeth and sons David and Gregory still lived at home with Jean and his wife Mary. Jean died in Somerville, Massachusetts at the age of 86 on May 21, 1985, and is interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden, Middlesex County, Mass.

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