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Arthur Biron

In memory of:

Private Arthur Biron

May 28, 1918
Boisleux-St-Marc, France

Military Service

Service Number:

660839

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Citation(s):

British War Medal, Victory Medal

Additional Information

Born:

June 12, 1894
Stoke, Richmond, Quebec

Enlistment:

March 28, 1916
Sherbrooke, Quebec

Son of Moïse Biron and Evelina Samson (deceased in 1908), of Brompton, Richmond, Québec. He stated being born on 15 April 1895 when he enlisted.

After a tour in Bermuda in November 1916 with the 163rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 6 December. He was transferred to C Company, 22nd Battalion, on 18 April 1918 and was killed in action on 28 May during a bayonet charge in a German trench east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc, near Mercatel, France.

Commemorated on Page 369 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. G. 2.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Sherbrooke Monument– Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names.

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    Sherbrooke Monument
    Sherbrooke Monument – Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names.

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