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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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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 365 of 1004. -
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Private Albert Caron
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Private Albert Caron
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 381 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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