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Private Adélard Burelle

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Military service

Service number: 120885
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: April 16, 1890 Beloeil, Verchères
Enlistment: September 28, 1915
Death: January 1, 1918 Étaples, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XXXI. E. 6A.
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Baptized Joseph-Adélard Burel. Son of Eustache Burel and Marie Jeannotte, of Beloeil, Verchères, Québec. The last name “Burel” evolved to “Burelle” with time. Adélard stated being born on 15 April when he enlisted.

Enlisted in the 69th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left St. John's, New Brunswick, on 17 April 1916 and arrived in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 5 July, he was wounded in the right knee on 24 July and discharged from medical care on 23 August. Severely wounded by a piece of shrapnel to his right side on 8 November 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium, he was evacuated to Casualty clearing station n° 3 in Grévillers, France. After two weeks, he was transferred to Hospital General n° 26 in Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais, where he stayed over one month, before he died of his wounds.

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Page 377 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

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