Tag: Van Doos
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Soldat George Girouard in the Great War
Wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres, serving with the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion. Discharged as medically unfit and returned to Canada. Re-enlisted with the 22nd Battalion in 1916. Severely wounded a second time during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and eventually returned to his unit, only to be wounded a third time, and fourth…
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Soldat Emile Hallez Royal 22e Régiment in the Great War
Cela brise le cœur l’histoire inédite de ce soldat, Emile Hallez, Royal 22e Régiment, grièvement blessé le 26 août 1918, lors de la Battaile de la Scarpe. Dix-sept ans d’hospitalisation jusqu’à sa mort. Early Life Emile Hallez born 4 March 1893 in Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville. A district within the Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of the city of Lévis,…
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Capitaine Joseph Henri Chaballe in the Great War
Capitaine Joseph Henri Chaballe was born in Belgium and served with the 22nd (French Canadian) Battalion in the Great War. Chaballe rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel with the battalion commonly referred to as the “Van Doos” (from vingt-deux, meaning twenty-two in French). Joseph’s ‘D’ Company captured the village of Courcelette during the Battle of…
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Private Joseph Malouin, The Van Doos, in the Great War
CEFRG presents the story of Private Joseph Malouin of “The Van Doos” – 22nd (French Canadian) Infantry Battalion, 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division. Joseph entered the war in September of 1915. Soon, he found himself on the sidelines, and invalided back to England to recover from a rare disorder. While convalescing, Joseph had…