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Alcide Germain

In memory of:

Private Alcide Germain

April 12, 1918
Neuville-Vitasse, France

Military Service


Service Number:

243576

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

June 30, 1894
St-Jude, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec

Enlistment:

June 15, 1916
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Joseph-Alcide-Stanislas Germain. Son of Pierre Germain (deceased in 1902) and Elmire Demers, of St-Jude, St-Hyacinthe, Québec.

The month before he enlisted, his older brother Oliva (service number 448103) died in England of severe back wounds he suffered in Belgium.

Commemorated on Page 413 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. B. 2.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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