Military service
Burial/memorial information
His father died in 1907 and his mother remarried successively to Josué Gagné (1909) and Fabien Fournier (1916).
Enlisted at Amqui, Quebec, on 12 August 1916 with the 189th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 6 October. Transferred to the 22nd French-Canadian Battalion on the 27th, he arrived in France the same day. On loan to the Entrenchment Battalion from 21 November 1916 to 3 March 1917, he rejoined his unit. He was killed in action on Vimy Ridge in the area of the Souchez and Scarpe rivers.
British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Banville
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Grave Marker
Grave Marker – The grave marker at the Nine Elms Cemetery located outside Roclincourt, France. It is located about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Cemetery
Nine Elms Cemetery – The Nine Elms Cemetery, located at Roclincourt, France. It is about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial in France. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Attestation Paper (page 1)
CEF ATTESTATION p 1 Source: Library & Archives Canada online. -
Attestation Paper (page 2)
CEF ATTESTATION p 1 Source: Library & Archives Canada online. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Grave marker
Grave marker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY (France) Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village about 6.5 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Lens. The NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY is on the western side of the main road and about 1.5 kilometres south of the village.
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