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Hector Labelle

In memory of:

Private Hector Labelle

June 14, 1918
Le-Fermont, Wailly, France

Military Service


Service Number:

847910

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

August 12, 1895
Ste-Rose-de-Laval, Île-Jésus, Quebec

Enlistment:

August 3, 1916
Montréal, Quebec

Son of Mélodie Paquette (deceased in 1910) and Fabien Labelle (remarried in 1915 to Élodie Larocque), of Montréal, Québec.

The battalion was in brigade support south-east of Agny and sent men on fatigue duty to improve the trenches of Telegraph Hill Switch, near Neuville-Vitasse. Hector was wounded from shrapnel and he died of his wounds at No. 4 Field Ambulance, located at Le-Fermont.

Digitized service file.

Commemorated on Page 443 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. E. 7.

Location:

Bailleulval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 13 kilometres south-west of Arras, and the BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY is one kilometre west of the village on the north side of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25)

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– La Presse 1 July 1918

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