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Personal data

• Name LAVELLE
• Initials JF
• First name JAMES FREDERICK
• Place of birth Pembroke
• Country Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of Patrick Lavelle and Matilda Braseau of Redcliff, Alberta
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 30 December 1914, Medicine Hat, Alberta
• Service number 108336
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Canadian Mounted Rifles
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Wounded On the night of May 11th 1916, he was on duty with a wiring party engaged in wiring the front line trenches to the left of Hooge. in the course of his duties he proceeded to a culvert, some 250 yards away to fetch wire. On the return journey he was wounded by the explosion of a stray enemy shell.
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in the stomach at n°10 CCS.
• Date of death 12 May 1916
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - D - 25

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