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Private Joseph A Henri Vézina

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Military service

Service number: 449229
Age: 40
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: November 13, 1876 Québec (St-Jean-Baptiste)
Enlistment: December 1, 1915
Death: May 2, 1917 Mont Forêt Quarries, Vimy, France

Burial/memorial information

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. F. 11.
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Baptized François-Xavier-Joseph-Ulric-Henry Vézina. Son of Ulric Vézina and Délina Belleau, of Quebec, Quebec. For some reason known only to him, he had declared that he was born in March of 1885 and had changed his initials when he enlisted.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 343 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.

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