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Private William Dupuis

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Military service

Service number: 2320413
Age: 38
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: March 9, 1880 Ste-Agathe, Manitoba
Enlistment: August 2, 1917 St.Boniface, Manitoba
Death: August 16, 1918 Chilly, France

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VIMY MEMORIAL
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Son of Jean-Baptiste Dupuis (deceased on 31 August 1919) and Cécile Pilon, of St-Adolphe, Manitoba. Widower of Marie Bruce. He stated being born in 1881 when he enlisted, but, according to 1891 and 1901 Manitoba Censuses, he would have been born in 1880.

He was wounded to the leg by a machine gun bullet, in an action in the vicinity of Chilly, and he was making his way towards the unit’s dressing station, when he was last seen.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 401 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France

Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:

TO THE VALOUR OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN MEMORY OF THEIR SIXTY THOUSAND DEAD THIS MONUMENT IS RAISED BY THE PEOPLE OF CANADA


Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.

A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.

The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.

On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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