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Military service
Service number:
144173
Age:
20
Rank:
Driver
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd Div. Trench Mortar Bty.
Birth:
August 12, 1898
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 29, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 14, 1918
Rouen, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
R. III. E. 9.
Additional information
Son of Honoré Blais and Domithilde « Mathilda » Lavoie (deceased in 1916), of Ottawa, Ontario. He was underage when he enlisted and declared being born in 1897. When he arrived in France in March 1916, he first served four months with the 22nd Battalion and he transferred with the artillery to supply ammunition. He was severely wounded on 17 August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens and he died of his wounds one month later, at General Hospital n° 5, in Rouen.
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 631 of 734 -
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Coupure de presse
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Ne -
Coupure de presse
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Ne
Digital gallery of
Driver Alfred Blais
Digital gallery of
Driver Alfred Blais
Digital gallery of
Driver Alfred Blais
Digital gallery of
Driver Alfred Blais
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 369 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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