copyright © Wartime Heritage Association
Website hosting courtesy of Register.com - a web.com company
Wartime Heritage
ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Name:
Leo Zachrie D’Entremont
Regimental Number:
477244
Rank:
Private
Service:
Royal Canadian Regiment
Date of Birth:
November 17, 1893
Place of Birth:
Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Date of Enlistment:
August 21, 1915
Place of Enlistment:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Age at enlistment:
21
Height:
5 Feet, 10 Inches
Complexion:
Dark
Eye Colour:
Blue Grey
Hair Colour:
Black
Marital Status:
Single
Trade:
Grocer
Religion:
Roman Catholic
Next of Kin:
Mrs. George D'Entremont, Middle East Pubnico, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Date of Death:
June 5, 1916
Age at Death:
22
Memorial:
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, Belgium
Commemorated on Page 77 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 25
Leo Z. D’Entremont was the son of George D. and M. A. D'Entremont, of Middle East Pubnico, Yarmouth
Co., Nova Scotia.
Private D’Entremont enlisted with the Royal Canadian Regiment at Halifax in August 1915. Overseas in
England, he embarked for France disembarking there at Boulogne on November 2, 1915.
Thousands of Canadians were killed and wounded in the fighting, from 2 to 13 June 1916, in the Battle
of Mount Sorrel. Mount Sorrel was a strategic hill in the Ypres Salient in Belgium. On 2 June, German
troops attacked the Canadians with an artillery barrage. The Allied trenches were blown apart killing
hundreds of Canadian troops.
Private D’Entremont was reported missing between June 2, and 5, 1916 in the trenches near and
listed as killed in action on June 5, 1916.
Leo Zachrie D’Entremont