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In memory of:

Private Hervé Blais

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Military service

Service number: 448019
Age: 18
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 13, 1897 Ashburnham
Enlistment: July 2, 1915 Québec, Québec
Death: July 5, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. B. 44A.
Additional information
Son of Édouard Blais and Mathilde « Émilia » Boulet (deceased in 1910). His father remarried to Aurore Bélanger in 1914 and lived in Québec (Limoilou). He stated being born in Québec in 1895 when he enlisted. He was re-enlisted when he arrived in England.

After rejoining his unit on 19 March 1916, which was already fighting in the trenches at Saint-Éloi, Belgium, he died at 12.30 p.m. on 5 July at the 10th Canadian Clearing Station of wounds sustained in action in the Voormezeele-Saint-Éloi sector, Belgium.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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