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Baptized Joseph Hector Labelle. Son of Mélodie Paquette (deceased in 1910) and Fabien Labelle (remarried in 1915 to Élodie Larocque), of Montréal, Québec.
Enlisted in the 150th Mont-Royal Carabiniers Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on September 23, 1916, and landed in Liverpool, England, on October 6. On November 28, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, and on the 29th, he crossed the English Channel, landing in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, that same day. In February 1917, he fought at Angres, and in April, he took part in the capture of Vimy Ridge. On August 15, 1917, he took part in the fighting on Hill 70. On the 16th, he was wounded by a bullet in his left arm. He returned to his unit on September 2 and went back to the front lines on November 9. On June 14, 1918, he was seriously wounded in action.
The battalion was in brigade support south-east of Agny and sent men on fatigue duty to improve the trenches of Telegraph Hill Switch, near Neuville-Vitasse. Hector was wounded from shrapnel and he died of his wounds at No. 4 Field Ambulance, located at Le-Fermont.
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Page 443 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Bailleulval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 13 kilometres south-west of Arras, and the BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY is one kilometre west of the village on the north side of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25)
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