Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Plymouth, England, on 29 May 1915 and Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, on 15 September. He was killed in action on 17 August 1917 in the trenches of Cité Saint-Laurent on Hill 70 during the Battle of Lens, France.
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private René D'Artois
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 225 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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