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Military service
Service number:
847693
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
December 15, 1884
Lentivne, Russia
Enlistment:
March 29, 1916
Montréal, Québec
Death:
April 9, 1917
Crête de Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Anne Bagdanovich of Swalka Gubernes, Russia. He arrived in Quebec City on 12 July 1912 and said he wanted to go to Montreal. He fought at Lens, Angres and in the Vimy sector where he was killed near Souchez and the Scarpe, Pas-de-Calais, France. His medals, awarded posthumously, were issued to the Russian state and are kept in Ottawa, Ontario, because of the civil war.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Antanas Bakys
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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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Private Antanas Bakys
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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