Military service
Burial/memorial information
Enlisted on 23 December 1915 in the 163rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, in May 1916 he left for Bermuda until November. Posted to the 10th Reserve Battalion in England on 7 January 1917, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion in France on 17 May 1917 and joined the latter unit in the Vimy sector, Pas-de-Calais. He was killed in action on 7 July 1917 during the Battle of Lens on Hill 70.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Memorial
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 Arthur Bonneau
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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