Private Jean Francois Marie Bernicot
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Bernicot,
Jean Francois Marie
Date of birth: 1880-09-15
Place of birth: Plabennec Finistere France
Next of kin: Yves Bernicot, brother, Camper, Manitoba
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address:
Camper, Manitoba
Religion: Roman Catholic
Date of death:
1918-08-08
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Hourges Orchard Cemetery, Domart-Sur-La-Luce, A. 14.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 722242
Highest Rank:
Private
(43rd Battalion)
Rank detail
Private, 43rd Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 259909
LAC ID:
40401
Service file: B0680-S033
Uploader's Notes: Jean Francois Marie Bernicot was born on 15 September 1880 in Plabennec, Finistère, in northwestern France. His parents were Louis Bernicot who was from Plabennec and Marie Anne Kerbrat who was from Guisseny, also in Finistère. The couple married on 30 January 1864 in Plabennec. Francios' known siblings were Marie Francoise (1867-1869), Jean (1869), Anonyme (1874-1874), Jean Louis Marie (1876), Anonyme (1877-1877), Gabriel Francois (1880-1881), Yves Marie (1883), Anne Marie (1885), and Marie Jean (1889). Francois' mother died in 1902 and his father in 1905, both in Plabennec. Francois' brother Yves immigrated to Canada in 1906, followed by Louis, Francois, Anne Marie, and Marie Jeanne in May of 1907, arriving in Montreal on the 25th aboard the Pomeranian. Along with other families from the same area of France, including Kerbrats, they settled in the Camper, Manitoba area just south of Ashern in the Interlake Region. Paying the required $10, Louis, Francois, and Yves all applied for homesteads at some point after arrival while the girls married French speaking immigrant farmers. With occupation given as farmer and his brother Yves in Camper as next of kin, Francois enlisted on 1 April 1915 in Ashern. He gave previous military service as three years with the Infantry Regiment in France. As a Private with the 108th battalion he arrived in England aboard the Olympic on 25 September 1916. In early January 1917 Francois was transferred to the 43rd Battalion, arriving at the unit on the 21st. That November he was given a ten day leave to Finistère. Francois was reported as killed in action on 8 August 1918 and is interred in the Hourges Orchard Cemetery, Domart-Sur-La-Luce, France. His medals and decorations were later sent to Yves and plaque and scroll to his brother Louis, both in Camper, Manitoba.
Uploader's Research notes: [Private Army Canadian Infantry 43rd Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2017-01-21