Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Wilfrid Touchette
In memory of:
Private Wilfrid Touchette
June 5, 1918
Neuville-Vitasse, France
Military Service
660188
49
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
January 18, 1869
Sainte-Martine, Châteauguay, Quebec
January 27, 1916
Montréal, Quebec
Baptized Joachim Touchette but later changed his name to “Wilfrid”. Son of Joachim Touchette (died 1899) and Domithilde Laberge, of Montreal, Quebec. He attested that he was single and was born on January 15, 1878 but he was in fact widowed since 1911 of Diana Giroux and father of a daughter, Alexina-Délisca, born 1891.
Commemorated on Page 513 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
II. G. 21.
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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