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Private Wilfrid Champagne

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Military service

Service number: 62112
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: December 25, 1894 St-Edmond-de-Berthier
Enlistment: December 7, 1914
Death: September 21, 1916 Etaples, France

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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: XV. D. I.
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Son of Noé Champagne and Virginie Comeau of Trois-Rivières, Québec.

Baptized Joseph Noël Wilfrid Champagne. He served for a year with the 86th Regiment in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for England on 20 May 1915. On 15 September, he landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Seriously wounded during the Battle of Courcelette, France, he died the same day at the 26th General Hospital in Étaples, France.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 65 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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