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Enlisted in the 189th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he embarked for Great Britain on 23 September 1916, arriving in Liverpool on 6 October and posted to the 69th Reserve Battalion. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 12 November, he was loaned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from 6 December 1916 to 21 February 1917. On 30 October 1917, he distinguished himself in action in the Passchendaele sector of Belgium and was awarded the Military Medal. While in a trench in front of Boiry-Becquerelle on the night of 23 May to 24, he was severely wounded from shrapnel. He was taken to a dressing station and from there evacuated to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in Doullens, where he died.
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Corporal Ernest Collard
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Corporal Ernest Collard
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Corporal Ernest Collard
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 387 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION No.2 Somme, France
Doullens is a town in the Department of the Somme, approximately 30 kilometres north of Amiens on the N25 road to Arras.
The DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSIONS lie on the eastern side f the town, about 270 metres south-east of the road to Arras.
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