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Private George Girouard

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Military service

Service number: 847908
Age: 33
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 14, 1885 Spencer
Enlistment: July 28, 1916
Death: June 18, 1918

Burial/memorial information

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. H. 10.
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Son of Jean-Baptiste « alias John » Girouard and Amanda Langevin, of Brockton, Massachusetts. He stated being born in 1884 and enrolled twice. He was severely wounded at Ypres in 1915. Repatriated, he reenrolled a few months later and was severely wounded at Vimy in 1917. Back to his unit after a year, he was wounded on May 28, 1918 during a raid on machine-gun post near Boileux St Marc, in the Arras area. A week later, in Neuville-Vitasse, he was killed by the explosion of a grenade during an enemy raid.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 415 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.

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