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Joseph Blais

In memory of:

Private Joseph Blais

May 4, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

856142

Age:

26

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

February 15, 1892
Lowell, Massachusetts

Enlistment:

March 16, 1916
Victoriaville, Quebec

Baptized Joseph-Alphonse Blais. Son of Amédée « Midas » Blais and Anna Drapeau (deceased in 1894).

His father remarried to Olivine Brochu in 1895 and lived in Ste-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Arthabaska, Québec.

Commemorated on Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. F. 12.

Location:

Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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