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Private Joseph Blais

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Military service

Service number: 856142
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 15, 1892 Lowell
Enlistment: March 16, 1916
Death: May 4, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. F. 12.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Alphonse Blais. Son of Amédée « Midas » Blais and Anna Drapeau (deceased in 1894).

His father remarried to Olivine Brochu in 1895 and lived in Ste-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Arthabaska, Québec.

From the 150th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 27 February 1918 and fought at Neuville-Vitasse, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was killed in action on 14 March.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.

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