Military service
Service number:
639733
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
May 17, 1896
Hull, Québec
Enlistment:
February 25, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Arsene and Rose Viau, of 80, St. Jacques, Hull, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Private Hector Viau
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Photo of Hector Viau
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Viau
Digital gallery of
Private Hector Viau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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