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Military service
Service number:
2383442
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
43rd Bn.
Birth:
June 29, 1897
Enlistment:
Port Arthur, Ontario
Death:
August 28, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 8.
Additional information
Son of Gideon Blanchard, a sometime resident of Nipigon , Ontario. He was called up and joined the army on January 10, 1918 and he died while serving with the 43rd (Cameron Highlanders) Bn. a Manitoba Regiment. Archie was 21 years old. He is buried at Ligny-st. Flochel British Cemetery
in Pas de Calais, France.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Blampie to Booth; Mircoform Sequence 11; Volume Number 131829_B016720; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 155 Page 9 of 762.
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Private Archie Blanchard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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