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Military service
Service number:
61547
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
June 20, 1888
Montréal (St-Vincent-de-Paul)
Enlistment:
October 26, 1914
Montréal
Death:
June 16, 1916
Mont Sorrel, Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Louis-Émeri Blain. Son of Émerie Blain (deceased in 1905) and Régina Gariépy (deceased in 1912), of Montréal, Québec. His mother remarried to Anthime Nantel in 1907. He named his brother Elzéar as next of kin. His first name is spelled “Emery” in the Book of Remembrance, but he and his father spelled their first name “Émerie”.
Arriving in France on 15 September 1915, he fought at Scherpenberg, during the First Battle of Ypres, at Vierstraat and at Saint-Éloi, in Belgium. He was killed in action at Mont-Sorrel, in the Ypres salient.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of
Private Émerie Blain
Digital gallery of
Private Émerie Blain
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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