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Corporal Arthur De Bellefeuille

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Military service

Service number: 661061
Age: 37
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: August 19, 1880 Ste-Marthe, Vaudreuil
Enlistment: April 26, 1916
Death: April 21, 1918 Mercatel, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. E. 3.
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Baptized Joseph-Moïse-Arthur Bellefeuille. Son of Moïse Bellefeuille and Marie Lefebvre, of Ste-Marthe-de-Vaudreuil. Married to Marie-Anna Gauthier in 1908, also of Ste-Marthe-de-Vaudreuil; father of three boys of a previous union, Raynold, anonymus child, Ovide de Bellefeuille.

Enlisted in the 163rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Liverpool, England, on 6 December 1916. He was first transferred to the 10th Reserve Battalion on 7 January 1917, then to the 22nd Battalion on 5 June. He landed in France on the 7th. He was loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. He was accidentally wounded by a bullet on 26 January 1918. He was killed in action on 21 April 1918 in the trenches north of Neuville-Vitasse in Mercatel, France.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 395 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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