Military service
Burial/memorial information
He had served with the 83rd and 65th Regiments before enlisting with the 69th Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 27 August 1916 and joined that unit to take part in the Battle of Courcelette, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was killed fighting to capture Regina Trench.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Georges Boileau
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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)
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Private Georges Boileau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 56 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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