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In memory of:

Private Eugène Bariel

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Military service

Service number: 633456
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: March 26, 1895 St-Pierre-les-Becquets, Québec
Enlistment: October 21, 1916 Barriefield, Ontario
Death: August 15, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. H. 19.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Eugène Ludger Lorenzo Baril.

Son of Fidèle Baril and Olive Nault, Thurso and Buckingham, Quebec.

When he enlisted, he anglicised his surname to Bariel. He died of wounds sustained the same day in action on 15 August 1917 during the Battle of Lens, Pas-de-Calais, on Hill 70 in the trenches near Cité Saint-Laurent, France, for the capture of Catapulte Trench Catapult.

Additional citations

War British Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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