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In memory of:

Private Alfred Bélanger

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Military service

Service number: 889564
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: June 22, 1896 St-Donat-de-Rimouski, Québec
Enlistment: April 15, 1916 Rimouski, Québec
Death: August 28, 1918 Chérisy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: E. 23.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Alfred Bélanger.

Son of Alfred Bélanger and Joséphine Brisson (deceased in 1900). His father remarried to Marie-Rose Caron in 1909 and they lived in St-Donat-de-Rimouski. He first named his grandfather, Georges Bélanger, as next-of-kin but later amended and used his father’s name instead.

After fighting in Amiens, Picardy, France, he was killed in action on 28 August 1918 during the Battle of Chérisy, Pas-de-Calais.

Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 366 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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