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Baptized Joseph-Alcide-Stanislas Germain. Son of Pierre Germain (deceased in 1902) and Elmire Demers, of St-Jude, St-Hyacinthe, Québec.
Enlisted in the 206th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Bermuda on May 26, 1916, leaving again in mid-November. On the 27th, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he set sail again for Great Britain, where he arrived on December 6. On January 7, 1917, he was incorporated into the 10th Reserve Battalion, on March 7 into the 150th Battalion, and on February 22, 1918, into the 22nd Battalion as a transmitter. On the 26th, he landed in France and on the 27th he went to the front line to take part in the Battle of Liévin-Lens, Pas-de-Calais, then in the Battle of Neuville-Vitasse on April 11, 1918. He was killed in action in the trenches northeast of this town. He was buried on the 15th.
The month before he enlisted, his older brother Oliva (service number 448103) died in England of severe back wounds he suffered in Belgium.
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Page 413 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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