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In memory of:

Private Joseph Robert Boucher

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Military service

Service number: 120879
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: May 6, 1896 Ste-Croix-de-Lotbinière
Enlistment: September 25, 1915
Death: May 26, 1918 Boisleux-Saint-Marc, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. F. 14.
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Son of André Boucher and Obéline Desrochers (deceased in 1902). His father remarried to Phébée Meunier in 1903 and they lived in Québec and Shawinigan, Québec.

He was wounded in the left leg on 19 September 1916 at Courcelette, France. Back at the front, he fought at Caëstre, France, Passchendaele, Belgium, Méricourt, Liévin-Lens and Neuville-Vitasse, all in France. He was killed in action on 26 May 1918 east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc, Pas-de-Calais, during the Battle of Arras.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 371 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.

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