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Transferred from the 10th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force to the 22nd Battalion on 15 October 1917, he arrived in France on the 19th and went to the front line on 24 November. On 27 February 1918, volunteering to lead a raid into enemy territory, he returned to the trenches at Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, having successfully completed his mission. Noticing that two soldiers from the group were missing, he went back to find them and bring them back wounded, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. He was killed in action on 30 March 1918 east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc, at Mercatel, near Arras, Pas-de-Calais.
Digital gallery of Private Omer Blanchet
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Private Omer Blanchet
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Private Omer Blanchet
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Private Omer Blanchet
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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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