Name: Joseph Leger Gaudet Rank: Private Service Number: 282905 Service: 85th Battalion and Canadian Machine Gun Corps Canadian Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: February 7, 1893 Place of Birth: New Edinburgh, Digby Co., NS Date of Enlistment: March 23, 1916 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., NS Address at Enlistment: Weymouth, Digby Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 23 Height: 5 feet, 6 ½ inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Dark Blue Hair Colour: Dark Brown Occupation: Carpenter Marital Status: Single (at enlistment) Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Lezin Gaudet (Father), Weymouth, Digby Co., NS Date of Discharge: June 15, 1919 Age: 26 Date of Death: April 4, 1945 Age: 52 Cemetery: Saint Jean de Baptiste Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Joseph Leger Gaudet was the son of Lezin Clement Gaudet (1865-1948) and Mary Emma (Doucet) Gaudet (1866-1964), and the husband of Beatrice M. (Comeau) Gaudet. His siblings were Herman Joseph Gaudet (1895-1984), Rose Gaudet (b. 1896), Lucie Gaudet (1898-1995), Joseph Theodore Gaudet (b. 1901), Joseph Nil Gaudet (1903-1989), Edward Joseph Gaudet (b. 1905), and Philip Clarence Gaudet (1908- 1968). He was the husband of Marie Beatrice Comeau (1895-1951). Joseph married Marie Beatrice Comeau on January 25, 1921, in Church Point, Digby County, NS. At enlistment, Joseph provided his year of birth as 1896, but he was born in 1893. Prior to his First World War enlistment, he had served in the Canadian Militia. He had served for 11 months on guard at the radio station in Barrington, Shelburne Co., NS. The station at Barrington Passage opened on April 10, 1915, and was operated by the Government of Canada and the British Admiralty. It was a naval radio station that was communicating with naval vessels patrolling off New York and other large American cities. Joseph enlisted March 23, 1916, and served in the Canadian Army during the First World War with the 219th, 246th and the 85th Battalion. He served in Canada, England and France. Prior to his discharge he also served with the No. 6 Special Service Company, and the 4th Battalion of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He was discharged at demobilization on June 15, 1919.

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