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Private George Blanchette

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Military service

Service number: 3155106
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: March 18, 1896 Huntingdon, Montérégie, Québec
Enlistment: December 26, 1917 Montréal, Québec
Death: November 7, 1918 Quiévrain, Mons, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

ELOUGES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: B. I.
Additional information
Baptized George-Gilbert Blanchette. Son of François « Frank » Blanchette and Émilie Lefevre, of Huntingdon, Montérégie, Québec. Three months prior to his death, on 8 August 1918, his brother Guy (service number 3155395) was killed in action, in Marcelcave, near Amiens, in France, with the 24th Battalion.

Transferred from the 10th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force to the 22nd Battalion on 25 October 1918, he arrived in France on the 27th to take part in the Battle of Cambrai, Nord. He was killed in action on 7 November 1918 at Quiévrain, Mons, Belgium.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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