John Edward Doucette 3180243 Private Royal Canadian Regiment 85th Battalion (France) October 19, 1896 Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS February 11, 1918 Yarmouth, NS Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS 21 5 feet Dark Brown Black Single Blacksmith Roman Catholic Frank B. Doucette (Father) Springhaven, NS June 15, 1919 September 12, 1952 Saint-Agnès Church Cemetery Quinan, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia John Edward Doucette was drafted under the Military Service Act of 1917 and was given a medical on November 22, 1917. He was determined to be fit for General Service with minor restrictions due to his height of 5 feet. He enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion, NS, in Halifax, on February 11, 1918, transferred to the 11th Reserve Battalion on April 20, 1918, and to the Royal Canadian Regiment on September 5, 1918 and to the 85th Battalion on September 11. He embarked Canada on April 7, 1918, and disembarked in England on April 14. He joined the 85th Battalion in France on September 14, 1918. He was granted 14 days leave in the UK on February 28, 1919 and rejoined his unit in France on April 15, 1919. He returned to England on April 29, 1919, and returned to Canada on May 31, 1919 for discharge on June 15, 1919.

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