Military service
Burial/memorial information
His oldest brother Calixte also served with the 22nd Battalion (service number 61677) and was severely wounded to the chest, forcing him to stay 10 months in hospital.
Transferred to the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 21 October 1916, he took part in the fighting at Bully-Grenay, Lens, Angres, Vimy Ridge and again at Lens, still in Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was killed in action on 18 August 1917 on Hill 70, near Cité Saint-Laurent, in the capture of Catapult Trench.
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Memorial
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) -
Newspaper clipping
La Presse - 8 April 1916
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Private Patrice Bigras
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Private Patrice Bigras
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 201 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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