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Military service
Service number:
98
Age:
23
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Signal Corps
Division:
2nd Can. Div. Signal Coy.
Birth:
March 26, 1893
Mission City, British Columbia
Enlistment:
March 23, 1915
Montreal, Québec
Death:
August 3, 1916
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. M. 34.
Additional information
Son of Merrill Des Brisay and E. Allardyce Des Brisay, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 931 of 1036. Originally buried in Henin-Lietard-Darcy Cemetery, 5 ¼ miles East South East of Lens, France. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
Digital gallery of
Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
Digital gallery of
Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
Digital gallery of
Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
Digital gallery of
Signalman Eric Merrill Des Brisay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 77 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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