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Private Alfred Béland

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Military service

Service number: 933051
Age: 31
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 27, 1887 Montréal (Sacré-Coeur)
Enlistment: April 6, 1917
Death: April 10, 1918 Manchester, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Grave reference: S. 111.
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Christened Joseph-Louis-Albert Béland, he served under the name Alfred Béland. He declared that he was born on 8 February 1885 when he enlisted. Son of Antoine Béland (d. 1907) and Malvina Grenier (d. 1922). Husband of Rosalba Renaud in 1906 and father of four children, of Montréal, Québec, including Joseph William Alfred, Joseph Édouard Adrien and Marie Rose Germaine Béland.

He was evacuated of his unit on 3 January 1918 and was sent to England at the end of the month due to chronic nephritis. He died there two months later of this condition; pleuritic and pneumonia.

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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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MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY Lancashire, United Kingdom

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