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Private Adélard Boivin

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Military service

Service number: 61905
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: June 21, 1896 St-Placide-de-Charlevoix
Death: August 27, 1918 Chérisy, France

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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY
Grave reference: D. 6.
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Son of Hildebert Boivin and Marie Audet-dit-Lapointe of St-Eugène-d’Argentenay, Mistassini, Lac-St-Jean, Québec.

His brother Ernest (Service Number 672764) also served with the 22nd Battalion; he was severely wounded to a leg the same day in Chérisy, spent 16 months in hospital and was left with permanent disabilities.

He previously served for a year with the 9th Regiment, Les Voltigeurs de Québec. Arriving in France on 15 September 1915, he fought at Scherpenberg, Ypres, Vierstraat, Saint-Éloi in Belgium, then in Pas-de-Calais, in France, at Lens, for the capture of the trench called Catapult, then at Angres, Passchendaele, in West Flanders, at Méricourt, at Neuville-Vitasse during the Battle of Amiens. He was killed in action in the trenches south-west of Wancourt during the Battle of Chérisy.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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