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In memory of:

Lieutenant Pierre Eugène Guay

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Citation(s);

Military Cross (MC)

Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: October 28, 1893 Chicoutimi, Saguenay
Enlistment: April 4, 1916
Death: May 1, 1918

Burial/memorial information

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. E. 13.
Additional information
Baptized Pierre-Eugène-Irénée-Isidore Guay. Son of Joseph-Dominique Guay and Maria Morin, of Chicoutimi, Québec. His father was mayor of Chicoutimi from 1895 to 1903 and from 1922 to 1924. He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, leading a platoon at the Battle of Hill 70 in August 1917, in Lens, France. He was killed on May 1st, 1918 while inspecting a support trench during stand to.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 420 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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