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Albert LeBlanc

In memory of:

Private Albert LeBlanc

February 26, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

417427

Age:

37

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

November 12, 1879
St-Raphaël-de-l’Île-Bizard, Montréal, Quebec

Enlistment:

July 5, 1915
Montréal, Quebec

Baptized Moïse Leblanc, but was known as Aimé Leblanc in census (1881 and 1901) and on his wedding certificate in 1905.

Son of Moïse Leblanc and Célina Therrien, of St-Martin-de-Laval, Québec.

Husband of Marie-Louise Daoust (married in 1905), of Montréal, Québec.

He simply used « A » Leblanc (and later « Albert » as his first name), stated being single and being born in 1884 when he enlisted.

He is commemorated as Albert Leblanc in the First World War Book of Remembrance.

Commemorated on Page 273 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. D. 27.

Location:

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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