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In memory of:

Private Amédée Blais

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Military service

Service number: 4040861
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 6, 1897 Ste-Foy (Québec), Québec
Enlistment: April 2, 1918 Québec, Québec
Death: October 2, 1918 Cagnicourt, Cambrai, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. A. 12.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Philéas-Arthur-Amédée Blais. Son of Joseph-Henri Blais and Eugénie Côté, of Ste-Foy (Québec), Québec. He stated being born on the 7th when he enlisted.

From the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, he took part in the Battle of Chérisy, Pas-de-Calais, France, joining the 22nd Battalion on 12 September 1918, having been transferred there the day before. He was killed in action during the Battle of Cambrai, France, during a German counter-attack on Cagnicourt.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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