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Sapper Joseph Denis (Stanislas) Chalifoux

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Military service

Service number: 417721
Age: 22
Rank: Sapper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Engineers
Division: 5th Bn.
Birth: November 5, 1895 Victoria Harbour, Simcoe, Ontario
Enlistment: August 20, 1915 Ontario
Death: September 3, 1918 Hendecourt-lès-Cagnicourt, France

Burial/memorial information

VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT
Grave reference: I. B. 8.
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Baptized Stanislas Chalifoux. Son of Adolphe « Delphis » Chalifoux and Mary-Adélaïde Labatt (deceased in 1904), of Victoria Harbour, Simcoe, Ontario. His father remarried to Angèle Hubert-Baker in early 1918 and then moved to Pakesley, Parry Sound, Ontario.

Stanislas and his brother Adolphe both changed their names when they enlisted: Stanislas enlisted as “Joseph-Denis Chalifoux” and Adolphe as “Joseph Jelifo”. Stanislas stated being born on 2 May 1895. The brothers were illiterate and their name was misspelled in official files.

In France, Stanislas was first taken on strength with the 22nd Battalion, from 28 August 1916 to 23 November 1917. He was the transferred to the Canadian Railway Troops and later to the Canadian Engineers.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 382 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT Pas de Calais, France

Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the road from Arras to Cambrai. The VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT is at the north side of the main road between the two villages.

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