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Adolphe Stephen Gaudet
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Adolphe Stephen Gaudet
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Sergeant
112th Battalion; 165th Battalion;
Canadian Forestry Corps
January 31, 1896
Yarmouth, NS
February 15, 1916
Yarmouth, NS
Yarmouth, NS
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5 feet, 9 inches
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Roman Catholic
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Edward Gaudet (Father) Yarmouth, NS
1938
Adolphe Stephen 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) Antoine Camille Gaudet (1898-
1906), Jean (John) Ernest Gaudet (1899-1985), 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 Adolphe’s brothers served during the First World War. Louis Malcolm Gaudet served with the
Canadian Forestry Corps, and Jean (John) Ernest Gaudet served with the 219th, 161st, and 47th
Battalions.
Prior to enlistment, Adolphe served with the 29th Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth as a recruit and as a
cadet.
Sergeant Gaudet transferred to the 165th Battalion after his initial enlistment was with the 112th
Battalion. He departed Canada on the SS Metagama at Halifax on March 25, 1917, and disembarked in
England at Liverpool on April 4, 1917. On June 22, 1917, he was taken on strength with 47 Company,
Canadian Forestry Corps and arrived in France June 23, 1917. He was confirmed as Corporal on October
19, 1918, and as Sergeant on March 4, 1919.
He was discharged on demobilization on July 12, 1919. After the war, Adolphe moved to the US with his
family. In 1930, he was working as a bookkeeper for a paint store in Massachusetts. He died in 1938.