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Private Télesphore Joseph Grenier

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Military service

Service number: 291698
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 30, 1895 Dunbar
Enlistment: January 8, 1916 Manitoba
Death: August 27, 1918

Burial/memorial information

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. C. 4.
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Son of Joseph-Télesphore Grenier and Marie Bolduc, of Dunbar, Wisconsin. He and his two sisters became orphan at a young age and were cared for by their maternal grandfather. This family moved to Canada in 1900 and the grand-father died in 1912. When he enlisted, he named his sister Gladys-Thérèse Grenier as next-of-kin; she married Pierre Ducasse (alias Coss) five months later.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 419 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Wancourt is a village about 8 kilometres south-east of Arras. It is 2 kilometres south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai. The WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is a short distance south-east of the village just off the D 35 road.

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