Major
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
(Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Canadian Army
World War I
Aged 34
Honours and Awards:
Military Cross
Citation in London Gazette No. 29131 dated 13 April 1915.
"For conspicuous gallantry at St. Eloi, on 28th February, 1915, when in charge of bomb throwers during our attack on the enemy's trenches. He shot two of the enemy himself, and then ran along the German sap throwing bombs therein."
Mentioned in despatches, London Gazette No. 29200 dated 22 June 1915.
Son of Louis Joseph and Caroline Pitkin Rogers Papineau, of The Manor House, Montebello, Quebec. Brother of Louis-Joseph IV, James Randall Wescott and Phillippe-Bruneau-Monigny. His grandfather was Louis-Joseph Papineau, leader of the patriot rebels in 1837 in the Province of Quebec.
He studied law in Oxford, England, where he played ice hockey for the Oxford Canadians and was a member of the college rowing team.
Commemorated on Page 305 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Major
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
(Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Canadian Army
World War I
Aged 34
Honours and Awards:
Military Cross
Citation in London Gazette No. 29131 dated 13 April 1915.
"For conspicuous gallantry at St. Eloi, on 28th February, 1915, when in charge of bomb throwers during our attack on the enemy's trenches. He shot two of the enemy himself, and then ran along the German sap throwing bombs therein."
Mentioned in despatches, London Gazette No. 29200 dated 22 June 1915.
Son of Louis Joseph and Caroline Pitkin Rogers Papineau, of The Manor House, Montebello, Quebec. Brother of Louis-Joseph IV, James Randall Wescott and Phillippe-Bruneau-Monigny. His grandfather was Louis-Joseph Papineau, leader of the patriot rebels in 1837 in the Province of Quebec.
He studied law in Oxford, England, where he played ice hockey for the Oxford Canadians and was a member of the college rowing team.
Commemorated on Page 305 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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