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Private Guy Blanchette

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Military service

Service number: 3155395
Age: 25
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 24th Bn.
Birth: July 22, 1893 Potsdam
Enlistment: January 5, 1918
Death: August 8, 1918 Marcelcave, Amiens, France

Burial/memorial information

ADELAIDE CEMETERY (VILLERS-BRETONNEUX)
Grave reference: I. F. 5.
Additional information
Son of François « Frank » Blanchette and Émilie Lefevre-Chartrand, of Huntingdon, Montérégie, Québec. He stated that he did not know his date of birth when he enlisted, so for his memorial page, the 1901 census is used.

Three months after his death, his brother George (service number 3155106) died while in combat, on 7 November 1918, at Élouges, near Mons, Belgium, with the 22nd Battalion.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADELAIDE CEMETERY (VILLERS-BRETONNEUX) Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a town 16 kilometres east of Amiens and the ADELAIDE CEMETERY is situated west of the village on the north side of the main road from Amiens to St. Quentin.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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