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Léopold Bergeron
In memory of:
Private Léopold Bergeron
May 28, 1918
Boisleux-St-Marc, France
Military Service
889072
20
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Additional Information
June 27, 1897
Ste-Croix, Lotbinière, Quebec
December 31, 1915
Lévis, Quebec
Son of Balthazar Bergeron and Adéline Matte (deceased in 1908), of Ste-Croix-de-Lotbinière, Québec. He stated being born in 1896 when he enlisted. His brother Edmond (service number 416031) was killed in action one year earlier, on 18 August 1917.
Transferred from the 69th Reserve Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force to the 22nd Battalion on 27 October 1916, he was killed in action on 28 May 1918 during a hand-to-hand bayonet assault on a German trench east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc, near Mercatel, France.
Commemorated on Page 367 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
II. G. 5.
Wailly is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 6 kilometres south-west from Arras in the valley of the little river Crinchon. WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY stands above the village on its outskirts in part of the old orchard.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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