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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
Enlistment: April 15, 1916
Death: August 28, 1918 Chérisy, France

Burial/memorial information

SUN QUARRY CEMETERY
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.

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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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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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