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Military service
Service number:
417947
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
November 25, 1894
Trois-Rivières, Mauricie, Québec
Enlistment:
June 12, 1915
Trois-Rivières, Mauricie, Québec
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Donat-Frédéric Bernaquez. Son of Napoléon (alias Paul) Bernaquez and Mathilde Dumont (deceased in 1905), of Trois-Rivières, Mauricie, Québec. His father remarried to Virginie Vézina in 1910 and he died in 1915, one month after his son went overseas. Donat then named his sister, Marie-Blanche-Aurore (wife of Rémi Hamelin) as next of kin.
He was killed in action on 9 April 1917 on Vimy Ridge, France, in the area of the Souchez and Scarpe rivers.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Donat Bernaquez
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Corporal Donat Bernaquez
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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