Joseph Ernest Pagé enlisted on March 1, 1916, from Knowlton, Quebec, and served as a private. He injured his arm at the Battle of Passchendaele and was never able to use it afterwards. He spoke little of war but did tell his daughter, Bernadette, that he must have been destined to return home to Knowlton and raise a family because two soldiers, one on each side of him, were killed.

Before the war, he owned a printing businesses and delivered beer by horse for Dow Breweries in Quebec. He married Alice Moquin and they had five children—Louis, Bernadette, Arthur, Bernard, and Lise. He died January 1978 and Moquin died March 1980.

Do you have an ancestor who served in the Great War? Submit their story and it could be included on this Great War Album website.