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Private Edward John Gadbois

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Military service

Service number: 457718
Age: 33
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 24, 1884 Malone
Enlistment: June 30, 1915
Death: April 2, 1918 Mercatel, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. C. 16.
Additional information
Son of Alfred Gadbois and Alice Riopel (deceased in 1901). His father remarried to Rose Gagnon in 1902 and died in 1911.

He declared his brother Wilfred (“Fred”) and his sister (Ms. Fred St. John), of Holyoke, Massachusetts, as his next of kin.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 411 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

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.

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