Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Émerie Blain
In memory of:
Private Émerie Blain
June 16, 1916
Mont Sorrel, Ypres, Belgium
Military Service
61547
27
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Additional Information
June 20, 1888
Montréal (St-Vincent-de-Paul), Quebec
October 26, 1914
Montréal, Quebec
Baptized Joseph-Louis-Émeri Blain. Son of Émerie Blain (deceased in 1905) and Régina Gariépy (deceased in 1912), of Montréal, Québec. His mother remarried to Anthime Nantel in 1907. He named his brother Elzéar as next of kin. His first name is spelled “Emery” in the Book of Remembrance, but he and his father spelled their first name “Émerie”.
Arriving in France on 15 September 1915, he fought at Scherpenberg, during the First Battle of Ypres, at Vierstraat and at Saint-Éloi, in Belgium. He was killed in action at Mont-Sorrel, in the Ypres salient.
Commemorated on Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL
Belgium
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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