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Military service
Service number:
552594
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Enlistment:
Pincher Creek, Alberta
Death:
April 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. D. 6.
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Photo de Ernest 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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Private Ernest Edwin Blais
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Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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