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Sergeant Adélard Bédard

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Military Medal (MM)

Military service

Service number: 416073
Age: 24
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: October 11, 1893 Métabetchouan, Lac St-Jean
Enlistment: February 22, 1915
Death: April 11, 1918 Neuville-Vitasse, France

Burial/memorial information

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. B. 3.
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Son of Onésime Bédard and Odile Bourdeau (deceased in 1902). His father remarried to Marie Lemieux in 1903 and the lived in Québec. He stated being born on 13 October 1894 when he enlisted.

He was killed in action on 11 April 1918 in a trench during a German bombardment north of Neuville-Vitasse, France.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 366 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.

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