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Military service
Service number:
113486
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 15, 1889
Maskinongé, Québec
Death:
March 19, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Soldiers Plot
Additional information
Son of Henri Petit, of Maskinongé, Quebec. He was single and stated he was employed as a shantyman. He disembarked on SS Missanabie 19 October 1915 and embarked in Canada on the SS Araguaya on 3 February 1919.
Additional citations
Military Medal, London Gazette Number 30797 dated 16 July 1918.
Digital gallery of Private Omer Petit
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse 16 November 1918
Digital gallery of
Private Omer Petit
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 541 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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