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Baptized Joseph-Émile-Rosario Girard. Son of Philéas Girard and Amanda Richard, of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born in 1897 when he enlisted.
He stated that he had served for one year with the 58th Westmount Rifles Regiment. Enlisted in the 69th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he left for Great Britain on April 17, 1916, arriving in Liverpool, England, on the 27th. He was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on July 2 and left for France on the 6th. He arrived that same day and joined his new unit fighting in Zillebeke, Belgium. He was loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from August 5 to September 18, 1916.
He was wounded from shrapnel the year before in Courcelette and had been evacuated for almost one year in England.
On April 5, 1917, he was temporarily assigned to the 10th Reserve Battalion. He returned to the 22nd Battalion on September 6 and went to the front on the 17th. He was killed in action on November 10, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium.
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La Presse - December 6, 1917 -
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Private Émile Girard
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Private Émile Girard
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Private Émile Girard
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Private Émile Girard
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Private Émile Girard
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Page 244 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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