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Eugène Gervais
In memory of:
Private Eugène Gervais
April 6, 1917
Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Vimy, France
Military Service
61470
40
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
March 23, 1877
Ste-Ursule, Maskinongé, Quebec
October 21, 1914
Montréal, Quebec
Baptized Joseph-Urgel Gervais. Son of Jean-Baptiste Gervais (deceased in 1916) and Marie Brousseau, of Montréal (St-Henri), Québec. He stated being born in 1880 when he enlisted, and he used the first name “Eugène” but 1901 and 1911 censuses does not indicate that he was known as such. Moreover, he signed “U. Gervais”.
Commemorated on Page 242 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
V. C. 4.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Newspaper clipping – La Presse - April 23, 1917
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