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Baptized Joseph-Pierre-Wilfrid Lessard. Son of Marie-Anne Gélinas (deceased in 1907) and Hormisdas Lessard (remarried in 1908 to Marie-Anne-Alzéma Charette), of Shawinigan-Falls, Mauricie, Québec. He had declared to be born in 1895 when he enlisted.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
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Sergeant Wilfrid Lessard
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 449 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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