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Private Arthur Ruel

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Military service

Service number: 856148
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: April 18, 1895 Montréal (Immaculée-Conception)
Enlistment: March 18, 1918
Death: August 28, 1918 Ligny-Saint-Flochel, France

Burial/memorial information

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. E. 25.
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Baptized Marie-Joseph-Arthur Ruel. Son of Joseph Ruel and Eugénie Durocher, of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was born in 1894 when he enlisted.

He was wounded in Chérisy and died of his wounds the next day at the Casuatly Clearing Station No 7 in Ligny-Saint-Flochel, France.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 495 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Ligny-St.Flochel is a village about 6.5 kilometres east of St.Pol on the main road to Arras. The distance from Ligny-St. Flochel to Arras is approximately 24 kilometres. The Ligny-St.Flochel British Cemetery is situated to the south of the village on the east side of the road to the village of Averdoingt.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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