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Benoit Joseph Melanson
733556
Private
112th Battalion; 25th Battalion
March 21, 1898
Grosses Coques, Digby Co., NS
December 21, 1915
Yarmouth NS
Grosses Coques, Digby Co., NS
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5 feet, 9 inches
fair
brown
blue
29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth NS
Single
Sailor
Roman Catholic
John C Melanson (Father), Grosses Coques, Digby Co., NS
August 9, 1918
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Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-Sur-Somme, France
Plot: V. D. 8
Commemorated on Page 469 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 5 and October 6
Not Commemorated on the Yarmouth War Memorial
Benoit Jospeh Melanson was the son of John C. and Aimee Bourneuf Melanson, of Grosses
Coques, Digby Co., Nova Scotia.
Having enlisted with the 219th at Yarmouth, he
departed Canada on the SS Olympic from Halifax on July
23, 1916 and disembarked at Liverpool, England on July
31, 1916.
He was taken on strength by the 25th Battalion
from the 112th Battalion in France on October 6, 1916.
He was hospitalized the result of a slight wound to the
head on July 25, 1917. He was discharged from No. 23
Casualty Clearing Station on August 7, 1917. He rejoined
his unit in the field the following day. On November 22,
he was granted fourteen days leave in England. He
rejoined the 25th Battalion on December 10, 1917. He
reported sick and was hospitalized between December
11, 1917 and April 6, 1918. He was discharged from No.
51 General Hospital at Etaples and was transferred to the
Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp (where troops were
held before being sent to reinforce existing units).
On May 15, 1918, Private Melanson was sentenced
to fourteen days Field Punishment No 1 for drunkenness while on active duty while at the
Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp. On June 17, 1918 he left for his unit and joined them on
June 19, 1918.
On August 8, 1918 Private Melanson was wounded by a gun shot wound to the abdomen and
was taken to No.1 Canadian Field Ambulance and transferred to No.5 Casualty Clearning Station
where he died of his wounds.
Benoit Joseph Melanson
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