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Private Wilfrid Lévesque

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Military service

Service number: 1012208
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 14, 1894 Montréal (Mile-End)
Enlistment: May 30, 1916
Death: March 30, 1918 Mercatel, France

Burial/memorial information

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. C. 9.
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Baptized Joseph-Wilfrid-Adrien Lévesque. Son of Louis Lévesque (deceased in 1909) and Marie Gagné (deceased in 1915), of Montréal, Québec. He had declared to be born on July 15th, 1895 at the time of his enlistment and he had named his only brother Alfred as his closest relative. The latter could not be traced, however, after his death.

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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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