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Joseph Desmarais
In memory of:
Sergeant Joseph Desmarais
May 4, 1917
Military Service
847012
22
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
July 23, 1894
Montreal, Quebec
December 4, 1915
Montreal, Quebec
He was baptized Joseph-Charles-Trefflé Brunet.
He was the son of Trefflé Brunet and Virginie Letellier.
Joseph-Charles-Trefflé Brunet was adopted at a young age by George-Edouard Desmarais and Marie-Louise Brunet. They moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island in 1918.
Commemorated on Page 227 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BEEHIVE CEMETERY (WILLERVAL)
Pas de Calais, France
B. 6.
Willerval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres north-east of Arras. Beehive Cemetery is one kilometre north of the village and 600 metres by the footpath from the west side of the D50E road to Mericourt in a place called Lorgette. The cemetery owes its name to a German machine gun emplacement known to the British troops as The Beehive. The cemetery covers an area of 431 square yards. It is enclosed by a concrete curb and a thorn hedge and planted with maples. It stands among cornfields, on the crest of a low ridge, with considerable views of the Vimy battlefield.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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