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Military service
Service number:
476555
Age:
25
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
1st Bde.
Birth:
December 24, 1891
Port Huron
Enlistment:
August 5, 1915
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
June 16, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Daril and Laura Ouimet, of White Rock, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Gunner Wesley John Ouimet
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 18, 1917. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y189uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Gunner Wesley John Ouimet
Digital gallery of
Gunner Wesley John Ouimet
Digital gallery of
Gunner Wesley John Ouimet
Digital gallery of
Gunner Wesley John Ouimet
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 304 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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