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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Jules Alcide Cotreau
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Jules Alcide
Cotreau
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Private
165th Battalion/Canadian Forestry Company
September 1, 1898
Yarmouth, NS
June 3, 1916
Wedgeport NS
Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS
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5 feet, 6½ inches
light
brown
brown
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Roman Catholic
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John M. Cotreau (Father) Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS
September 5, 1990 (Our Lady Calvary Cemetery, Yarmouth, NS)
Jules Cotreau departed Canadian on March 25, 1917 and arrived in Liverpool, England on April 7, 1917.
While at Shornham, England he was posted to Canadian Forestry Company and arrived in in France on June 23,
1917 where he served with the 47th Company CFC. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on June 3, 1918
and grant6ed fourteen days leave. While on leave, he was admitted to hospital on August 8 with tonsillitis and
was discharged on October 20, 1918.
He returned to Canada in June of 1919 and was discharged from service on June 22, 1919 at St John, NB,
