Military service
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Enlisted in the 69th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left St. John's, New Brunswick, on 17 April 1916 and arrived in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 5 July, he was wounded in the right knee on 24 July and discharged from medical care on 23 August. Severely wounded by a piece of shrapnel to his right side on 8 November 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium, he was evacuated to Casualty clearing station n° 3 in Grévillers, France. After two weeks, he was transferred to Hospital General n° 26 in Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais, where he stayed over one month, before he died of his wounds.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 73 of 926. -
Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 9 January 1918
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Private Adélard Burelle
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Private Adélard Burelle
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Private Adélard Burelle
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 377 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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