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Baptized Joseph Arthur Dupuis. Son of Joseph Dupuis and Marie Toupin, of Montréal, Québec.
Enlisted in the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he embarked from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June 2, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, on the 8th. On September 21, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and on the 22nd, he landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France with the 69th Battalion. He joined his new unit in combat. From October 6, 1916, to an unspecified date, he was loaned to the 2nd Entrenchment Battalion. He was killed in action on April 9, 1917, in the Souchez and Scarpe river sector during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. His body was never found.
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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 Arthur Dupuis
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Private Arthur Dupuis
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Page 232 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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