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Eric Merrill Des Brisay

In memory of:

Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay

August 3, 1916
Lens, France

Military Service

Service Number:

98

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Signal Corps

Division:

2nd Can. Div. Signal Coy.

Additional Information

Born:

March 26, 1893
Mission City, British Columbia

Enlistment:

March 23, 1915
Montreal, Quebec

Son of Merrill Des Brisay and E. Allardyce Des Brisay, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Commemorated on Page 77 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

XV. M. 34.

Location:

Souchez is a village in the Department of the Pas-De-Calais, 3.5 kilometres north of Arras on the main road to Bethune. It lies in the valley of the Souchez river, between the Lorette Bridge to the west and Vimy Ridge to the east. The CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY is about 1.5 kilometres south of the village on the west side of the D937 Arras-Bethune Road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of death registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 931 of 1036. Originally buried in Henin-Lietard-Darcy Cemetery, 5 ¼ miles East South East of Lens, France.

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    Circumstances of death registers
    Circumstances of death registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 931 of 1036. Originally buried in Henin-Lietard-Darcy Cemetery, 5 ¼ miles East South East of Lens, France.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping
    Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping
    Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Honour Roll– From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

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    Honour Roll
    Honour Roll – From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.
  • Grave Marker– Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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    Grave Marker
    Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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