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Name Jean Brillant No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1022 Awards VC DSC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 22nd Battalion, Quebec (Canadien Francais) Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Assametquaghan, Matapadia County, Quebec, Canada
Place Of Death Near Meharicourt, France
Buried/Location Ashes Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, 10 miles east of Amiens, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 6A, Row B, Grave 20
Gazetted 27 November 1918
VC Presented 16 December 1918 by Governor-General of Canada, Duke of Devonshire at Rimouskie, Quebec, Canada to his father
Memorials
P Headstone, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, 10 miles east of Amiens, Somme, France
Named on Rimouski War Memorial, Quebec, Canada
P Bust, The Citadel, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Brillant Street, Rimouski, Baie Comeau, Quebec, Canada
P Parc Jean-Brillant & Rue Jean Brillant, C⌠te-des-Neiges, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
By The Way…
During his time in the trenches, he suffered from Trench Fever which was a Bacteria Infection,caught from the Body Louse.
VC Held By
Royal 22e Regimental Museum, La Citadel, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
BORN 15 March 1890
DIED 8 August 1918 AGE 28
VC Won 8-9 August 1918 AGE 28
Place VC Won Near Meharicourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
