Source: “Duty Nobly Done” page 235.
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Family Search: When Private Jean Able Blais was born on 25 September 1891, in Port-Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada, his father, Charles Blais, was 45 and his mother, Marie Adèle Alain, was 39. He married Yvonne Morin in 1940, in Gascons, Port-Daniel-Gascons, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada for about 21 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as lumberman. He died on 10 January 1957, in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 65.
Wounded during trench raid.
Military Medal. London Gazette, no. 30340.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 