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Baptized Joachim Touchette but later changed his name to “Wilfrid”. Son of Joachim Touchette (died 1899) and Domithilde Laberge, of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was single and was born on January 15, 1878 but he was in fact widowed since 1911 of Diana Giroux and father of a daughter, Alexina-Délisca, born 1891.
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Private Wilfrid Touchette
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Private Wilfrid Touchette
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 513 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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