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Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard

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Military service

Service number: 121005
Age: 21
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: September 14, 1896 St-Boniface-de-Shawinigan, Mauricie
Enlistment: September 23, 1915
Death: May 1, 1918 Neuville-Vitasse, France

Burial/memorial information

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. E. 9.
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Baptized Joseph-Pierre-Wilfrid Lessard. Son of Marie-Anne Gélinas (deceased in 1907) and Hormisdas Lessard (remarried in 1908 to Marie-Anne-Alzéma Charette), of Shawinigan-Falls, Mauricie, Québec. He had declared to be born in 1895 when he enlisted.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 449 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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