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Military service
Service number:
61691
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
June 15, 1881
Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montréal), Québec
Enlistment:
October 27, 1914
Montréal, Québec
Death:
November 28, 1915
Vierstraat, Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. A. 5.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Arthur-Pierre Guay, son of Pierre Guay (deceased in 1914) and Basilisse Hallé, of Pointe-aux-Trembles. He was the husband of Églantine Labrecque, also of Pointe-aux-Trembles. At the time of the 1911 census, he was the father of three sons: Maurice, Rodolphe, and Alfred Guay.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed on the 29th in Plymouth, England. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, that same day with Company D, 13th Platoon, of the battalion’s first contingent. He was killed in action on November 28, 1915, in a trench at Vierstraat, Belgium, by the explosion of a shell, whose shrapnel fatally wounded him in the back. He was buried along the road leading from Kemmel to Vierstraat.
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Attestation Paper
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Attestation Papers
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Newspaper clipping
La Patrie - 16 December 1915 -
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Private Arthur Guay
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Private Arthur Guay
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Private Arthur Guay
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Private Arthur Guay
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Private Arthur Guay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 17 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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