CHARBONNEAU, Gilbert "Napoléon" ^{3 4 5}

  Facts and details for Gilbert "Napoléon" Charbonneau:

• An alternative source document lists his birth date as 25 Nov 1884 and birth location as Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. ⁷

• An alternative source document lists his birth date as 25 Nov 1885 and birth location as , , Ontario, Canada. ⁸

• He lived in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1901. ⁴

• He served in the military in WWI from 1916 to 1919 and enlisted in Hull (now Gatineau), Outaouais, Québec, Canada. ^{7 9} on 29 April 1916 as a Private. According to his enlistment form he was 5' 5" tall with a medium complexion, black hair and brown eyes. He was originally assigned to the 230th Battalion. He left Halifax on 3 March 1917 and arrived in England on the 15th. There he was assigned to the Canadian Forrestry Corps (CFC) and posted to France and landed at Havre on 24 April 1917. He remained in France until being posted to the CFC Depot in Seaford, England on 7 January 1919. He returned to Canada on 15 February 1919 and was discharged on 15 March 1919.

During his time in France there were several instances where he was docked pay and sentenced to field punishment #1 or #2 for various offenced. In Field Punishment Number Two, the prisoner was placed in fetters and handcuffs but was not attached to a fixed object for 2 hours (Field Punishment #1, nicknamed "crucifixion" by the soldiers) and was still able to march with his unit. F.P. #2 was a relatively tolerable punishment. In both forms of field punishment, the soldier was also subjected to hard labour and loss of pay. Given the conditions soldiers were subjected to in WWI it is understandable why some did what they did to survive emotionally. The following is a list of the offences and punishments applicable to Napoleon:
- 24-05-1917: 1 day F.P.#2 and 2 days pay for being abscent from camp for a day;
- 20-06-1917: 2 days F.P. #2 for drunkenness;
- 26-07-1917: 5 days F.P. #2 for drunkenness on line march;
- 23-08-1917: 21 days F.P. #2 and 1 day's pay for drunkenness and A.W.O.L for 1 day;
- 30-05-1918: 12 days pay for being A.W.O.L. for 1 day;
- 20-06-1918: 21 days F.P. #1 and 2 days pay for being A.W.O.L for 1 day; and
- 31-10-1918: 7 days F.P.#2 and 1 day's pay for being A.W.O.L. overnight.
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• He worked as a plumber and pipefitter on 29 Apr 1916 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. ⁷

• He lived at 87 1/2 Nelson St. in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada on 29 Apr 1916. ⁷

• He worked as a plumber from 1921 to 1935 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. ^{10 11}

• He lived at 75 Clarence St. in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1921. ¹¹

• He lived at 286 1/2 Dalhousie St. in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1931.

• He lived at 55 Marier Rd. in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1935. ¹⁰

• His obituary was published in the Ottawa Journal on 12 Apr 1954 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. It read as follows:

On Sunday, April 11, 1954, is hospital, Napoleon Charbonneau, husband of the late Therese Postingale, age 69 years. Resting at Horace Racine and Robert Ltd., 260 Besserer. Funeral Wednesday to Notre Dame du St. Esprit Church for requiem high mass at 8 o'clock. Interment Notre Dame cemetery. ⁶

• He was buried at the Notre Dame Cemetery, Section 30 - DVA in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada on 14 Apr 1954. ⁵

Gilbert married Thérèse POSTINGALE, daughter of Dominique POSTINGALE and Flavie Sophie ST-AMAND, on 7 Jan 1905 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada.^{1 2} (Thérèse POSTINGALE was born on 6 Jul 1882 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada ^{2 12 13 14}, baptized on 7 Jul 1882 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada,¹² died on 22 Mar 1947 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada ^{13 14 15} and was buried on 26 Mar 1947 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada ^{13 14 15}.). The cause of her death was multiple myeloma.