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Private Wilfrid Laforest

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Military service

Service number: 660957
Age: 18
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: March 2, 1900 Lachute, Outaouais
Enlistment: April 11, 1916
Death: August 16, 1918 Chilly, France

Burial/memorial information

VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave reference: B. 16.
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Baptized Joseph-Wilbrod-Roméo Laforest. Son of Marie-Louise Brisson (deceased 1905) and Magloire Laforest (remarried 1906 to Célanire Brisson and died 1910). He had declared to be born in 1899 when he enlisted.

He named his sister Marie (wife of Télesphore Tessier of Lachute) as his next of kin but enlisted under the first name "Wilfrid"; perhaps to hide the fact from her until he was sent overseas.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 444 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France

Vrely is a village 32 kilometres East of Amiens, immediately South of Rosieres-en-Santerre. The Communal Cemetery Extension adjoins the rear of the Communal Cemetery which is West of the village on the road to Caix.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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