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His father died in 1907 and his mother remarried successively to Josué Gagné (1909) and Fabien Fournier (1916).
Enlisted at Amqui, Quebec, on 12 August 1916 with the 189th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 6 October. Transferred to the 22nd French-Canadian Battalion on the 27th, he arrived in France the same day. On loan to the Entrenchment Battalion from 21 November 1916 to 3 March 1917, he rejoined his unit. He was killed in action on Vimy Ridge in the area of the Souchez and Scarpe rivers.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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Private Joseph Banville
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY (France) Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village about 6.5 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Lens. The NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY is on the western side of the main road and about 1.5 kilometres south of the village.
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