Name: John Joseph Alphonse Gaudet Rank: Private Service Number: F/40200 Service: West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: August 10, 1915 Place of Birth: Belliveau’s Cove, Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: March 11, 1940 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot, Kings County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 24 Height: 5 feet, 8 ¾ inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Hazel, Brown Hair Colour: Dark Brown Occupation: Blacksmith and Fireman Marital Status: Married Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Mrs Frances Madeline Gaudet (Wife), Kentville, NS Date of Death: May 15, 1941 Age: 25 Cemetery: Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, England Grave: Section 31, Row E, Grave 7 John Joseph Alphonse Gaudet was the son of Alphonse "Alphie" Joseph Gaudet (1891-1953) and Edith Pauline (Greenlun) Gaudet (1894-1992), and the brother of Margaret Gaudet (1908-2011), Mary Edith Gaudet (1910- 1998), Ruth Evangeline Gaudet (1919-1998), Gerald Bernard Gaudet (1920-2008), Muriel Ethel Gaudet (1924- 2014), Raymond Russell Gaudet (1926-2016), Cecile Annie Gaudet (1928-1928), Charles Edouard "Eddie" Gaudet (1936-1994), and Jean Gaudet. John married Frances Madeline Brewster in Paradise Village, NS, on July 17, 1939. Prior to enlistment in March of 1940, John had served in the Canadian Militia beginning in June of 1939. He completed his training in Canada and departed for the United Kingdom embarking at Halifax on July 15, 1940. Private Gaudet travelled aboard the SS Duchess of York with another 226 WNSR soldiers. He disembarked on August 1, 1940, in Glasgow in Scotland. Private John Joseph Gaudet was assigned to the No. 2 Canadian Infantry Holding Unit in England, and died May 15, 1941, at the 15th General Hospital at Bramshott, East Hampshire District, Hampshire, England from injuries sustained when accidently knocked down by an army vehicle. He is interred at the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England.

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