Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Arthur De Bellefeuille
In memory of:
Corporal Arthur De Bellefeuille
April 21, 1918
Mercatel, France
Military Service
661061
37
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Additional Information
August 19, 1880
Ste-Marthe, Vaudreuil, Quebec
April 26, 1916
Montréal, Quebec
Baptized Joseph-Moïse-Arthur Bellefeuille. Son of Moïse Bellefeuille and Marie Lefebvre, of Ste-Marthe-de-Vaudreuil. Married to Marie-Anna Gauthier in 1908, also of Ste-Marthe-de-Vaudreuil; father of three boys of a previous union, Raynold, anonymus child, Ovide de Bellefeuille.
Enlisted in the 163rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 6 December 1916. He was first transferred to the 10th Reserve Battalion on 7 January 1917, then to the 22nd Battalion on 5 June. He landed in France on the 7th. He was loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. He was accidentally wounded by a bullet on 26 January 1918. He was killed in action on 21 April 1918 in the trenches north of Neuville-Vitasse in Mercatel, France.
Commemorated on Page 395 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
II. E. 3.
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.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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