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Private Albert Caron

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Military service

Service number: 1105097
Age: 29
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth: November 29, 1888 L’Isle-Verte, Bas St-Laurent
Enlistment: June 7, 1917
Death: September 19, 1918 Mingoval, France

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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave reference: IV. B. 45.
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Baptized Joseph-André-Albert Caron. Son of Charles-Henri Caron (deceased in 1912) and Sarah Albert, of Grand-Mère and Trois-Rivières, Mauricie, Québec. He stated being born in 1890 when he enlisted.

When he arrived in France, Albert was deployed to the 22nd Battalion, but he never joined the unit. After ten days at the Reinforcement Camp, he was transferred to the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. On 17 September 1918, during the Battle at the Canal du Nord, he was wounded by shrapnel and he died of his wounds two days later at the No. 42 Casualty clearing station, then located in Mingoval, 15 km north-west of Arras.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 381 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France

Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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