Military service
Burial/memorial information
Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 27 August 1916 from the 69th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he joined his new unit on 20 September to take part in the Battle of Courcelette, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was first reported missing and then presumed dead in action on 4 October 1916.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Herménégilde Blais
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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)
Digital gallery of
Private Herménégilde Blais
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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