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Baptized Joseph Ulric Giroux. Son of Pierre-Édouard Giroux (deceased in 1902) and Delphine Richard (deceased in 1905), of Québec.
He stated being born on 24 February 1889 when he enlisted and he named his brother Edmond, from Québec, as next-of-kin and legal heir.
He had previously served in the 9th Regiment, the Voltigeurs de Québec. Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on May 20, 1915, he sailed for Great Britain and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel from Folkestone and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, that same day with Company B. On June 19, 1916, he was wounded in action by shrapnel in his right upper arm during the Battle of Zillebeke-Mont-Sorrel, in the Ypres Salient, Belgium. He was evacuated to England on the 21st until September 6. On January 29, 1917, he was temporarily incorporated into the 10th Reserve Battalion, returning to the 22nd Battalion on September 7 and going back to the front line on the 17th to take part in the battles of Hill 70 and Passchendaele. He was killed in action on May 4, 1918, at Neuville-Vitasse, Pas-de-Calais.
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Private Ulric Giroux
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Private Ulric Giroux
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Page 415 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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