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Lieutenant Jean Brillant

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Victoria Cross (VC) Canada
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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Battalion
Birth: March 15, 1890 Mission Assametquaghan
Enlistment: January 11, 1916
Death: August 10, 1918 Méharicourt, France

Burial/memorial information

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: VIA.B.20
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Baptized Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant. Son of Joseph Bois-Brillant and Rose de Lima Raiche of Causapscal, Matapédia, Québec. Brother of sailor Jules Brillant, who served in the Canadian Merchant Navy between the two world wars.

He previously served for 13 years in the 89th Regiment. He enlisted at Camp Valcartier with the 189th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In England, on 6 October 1916, he was posted to the 69th Reserve Battalion. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 27 October, he arrived in France the same day. Loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from 28 to 31 October 1916, he returned to his unit on 20 February 1917 after a course on Lewis machine guns and signals. Wounded in action for the first time on 28 May 1918, he was not evacuated, a second time on 8 August during a raid between Vrély and Méharicourt during the Battle of Amiens. He died of these wounds on the 10th.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 374 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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