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Military service
Service number:
61325
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
August 18, 1887
Champlain, Mauricie, Québec
Enlistment:
December 1, 1914
St-Jean, Québec
Death:
February 14, 1916
Bailleul, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 136.
Additional information
Son of Hercule Arcand and Eugénie Constantin (deceased in 1891). His father remarried to Maria Marchand in 1892 and they lived in Champlain, Mauricie, Québec.
He was wounded to the abdomen during trench duties in Vierstraat, in the Ypres sector, in Belgium. He died of his wounds at the casualty-clearing station in Bailleul.
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Arcand
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Pierre tombale
Grave marker -
Coupure de presse
La Presse - 4 March 1916
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Arcand
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Arcand
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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