Name: Fred Joseph Gaudet Rank: Private Service Number: 3190612 Service: 6th Battalion, Canadian Garrison Regiment Date of Birth: February 23, 1895 Place of Birth: Ohio, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: October 3, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Camp Aldershot, Kings Co., Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Brooklyn, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 23 Height: 5 feet, 5 ½ inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Blue Hair Colour: Light Brown Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Mary Gaudet (Mother), Brooklyn, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Discharge: July 25, 1919 Age: 24 Date of Death: 1978 Age: 83 Cemetery: Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville, Halifax Co., NS Frederick ‘Fred’ Joseph Gaudet was the son of Marie Évangeline ‘Mary’ (Saulnier) Gaudet (1872-1938) and Louis Simon (Simeon) Gaudet (b. 1865/66-1954). Both his parents are buried in the St. Ambrose Parish in Yarmouth. His siblings were Moise Joseph Gaudet (1893-1966), Mary Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Gaudet, Ivan Joseph Gaudet (1900-1967), Charles Gaudet (1901-1918), Renie Gaudet, Ida Marie ‘May’ (Gaudet) LeBlanc (1905-1958), Annie Emily Gaudet (1908-1993), Janie ‘Jennie’ Lena Gaudet (b. 1910). He was the husband of Lavenia Alice (Garland) Gaudet (1902-1974). On October 24, 1922, he married Lavenia Alice Garland in Halifax, NS, at St. Mary’s Glebe on the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road. The two had at least one child, Ivan (the informant on Lavenia’s death record). Fred’s brother Charles died on June 18, 1918, from TB. Fred and his family lived in Brooklyn in Yarmouth County at the time of enlistment in October of 1918. He initially enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion of the Nova Scotia Regiment. On December 3, 1918, he was taken on strength with the 6th Battalion of the Canadian Garrison Regiment in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During his time in the military, Fred was hospitalised with influenza from February 13 to 21, 1919, at the Cogswell Street Military Hospital, and then moved to the Camp Hill Hospital with debility and to treat tonsilitis, where he remained until May 20, 1919. He returned to service on May 21, 1919, serving until the summer of 1919. He was struck of strength and discharged on demobilization on July 25, 1919.

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