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Military service
Service number:
886099
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
February 14, 1887
Montréal (Notre-Dame), Québec
Enlistment:
January 4, 1916
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 10, 1918
Méharicourt, La Somme, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-David-Aimé Bélanger. Son of Joseph-Moïse Bélanger and Wilhelmine Brunet-Chrétien (deceased in 1914), of Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Bas-St-Laurent, Québec. His father remarried to Florida Lebel in 1915.
He served for three years with the 1st Regiment National Guard in Maine, USA. Seriously wounded in action at Méharicourt during the Battle of Amiens in France, he died the same day.
Additional citations
Badge for good conduct face to enemy, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Joseph David Bélanger
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Joseph David Bélanger
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 366 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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