Name: Eugene Albert Surette Rank: Private First Class Service Number: 1682351 Service: L Company, 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, US Army, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Date of Birth: July 24, 1886 Place of Birth: Pinkney’s Point, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: February 3, 1918 Height: 5 feet, 9 inches Complexion: Medium Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Brown Date of Death: July 29, 1958 Cemetery: Unknown Eugene Albert Surette was the son of George Albert Surette (1861-1891) and Georgine (Georgina) Surette (1864-1950). His brother George Albert died with the sinking of the schooner Georgine. Records indicated he immigrated to the US on June 20, 1912, travelling to Boston on the Prince George from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He registered for the US Draft June 5, 1917, and was living at 383 Maverick St. in East Boston, Mass. The 306th Infantry Regiment was a National Army unit first organized for service in World War I as part of the 77th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Metropolitan Division (because it was made up of mostly New Yorkers), in Europe. The 306th Regiment was split into many parts on the voyage to England. Regimental Headquarters, the Supply Company, HQ Co., the Machine Gun Co., and Company E, left camp on Friday, April 12th, and embarked at Boston on the 13th on the East India liner Karoa, which later joined a large convoy at New York. It was desperately cold; ice sheathed the deck of the ship and the only heat obtainable was in the boiler room, where one could always find as many men as the chief engineer would allow. Company A embarked on the Lapland, at New York on the 6th; Company B on the Victoria and Company C on the Cretic, at New York on the same date. These 3 ships arrived at Liverpool April 20th. Companies D, F, G, H, I, K, L (Eugene’s Company) and M embarked on April 16th on the HMS Kashmir at New York, and there joined the convoy of which the Karoa formed a part. The 306th served in the Baccarat Sector, The Vesle Sector (Champagne), and the Meuse-Argonne Sector. Eugene served in the US Army from February 3, 1918, to May 17, 1919, returning stateside aboard the Mt Vernon, which departed Brest, France, on April 17, 1919, and arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey 8 days later, on April 25, 1919. He applied for US citizenship September 11, 1919. He was working as a laborer and had returned to 383 Maverick St. after the war. He became a US Citizen, completing his Oath of Allegiance on October 3, 1919. He was living in Rhode Island in 1942 and died in Massachusetts July 29, 1958.* Name: Eugene A Surette Departure Date: 17 Apr 1919 Departure Place: Brest, France Arrival Date: 25 Apr 1919 Arrival Place: Hoboken, New Jersey Residence Place: Pinkney's Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Mother: Georgina Surette Ship: Mt Vernon Military Unit: Company L, 306th Infantry Regiment Rank: Private First Class Service Number: 1682351 Notes: COMPANY L 306TH INFANTRY Search Photos: No image available *The information was obtained from the U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939 (from ancestry.com).

Eugene Albert Surette

Sources: History of the 306th Infantry Regiment