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Digital gallery of Private Ernest Edwin Blais
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Private Ernest Edwin Blais
Ernest Edwin Blais, son of Alva Blais and Isabella Miller, killed in action Arleux-en-Gohelle, April 28, 1917, aged 20 years. This picture was taken sometime between April 1915 and June 1916. He was 19 years old in Nov. 1915 when he was serving with the 13th Bn. Cdn. Mounted Rifles in Alberta. He transferred out to go overseas and when he was in England he was assigned to the 8th Bn. Infantry (Manitoba Regt.) in France.
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Ernest Edwin Blais, son of Alva Blais and Isabella Miller, killed in action Arleux-en-Gohelle, April 28, 1917, aged 20 years. This picture was taken sometime between April 1915 and June 1916. He was 19 years old in Nov. 1915 when he was serving with the 13th Bn. Cdn. Mounted Rifles in Alberta. He transferred out to go overseas and when he was in England he was assigned to the 8th Bn. Infantry (Manitoba Regt.) in France.
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Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS STATION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.
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