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Baptized Joseph-Uldéric Guindon. Son of Rose-Anna Gagnon (deceased in 1902) and Uldéric Guindon (remarried 1904 to Adéline Marsolais), of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born on 14 September 1895 when he enlisted. He served exclusively under the name Albert Guindon.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was highly undisciplined. He sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. On September 15, he crossed the English Channel and landed in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, that same day. On February 22, 1916, he was wounded by a bullet to the head during combat at Locre, Belgium. For medical reasons, he was evacuated to England from September 16 to November 17, 1917. From March 2 to 10, 1918, he was seconded to the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company in France.
Severely wounded to the legs on March 31, 1918, by a shell in the trenches at Mercatel, he was evacuated to No. 3 Stationary hospital in Doullens, where he died of his wounds shortly after his arrival on April 1, 1918.
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Private Uldéric Albert Guindon
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Private Uldéric Albert Guindon
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Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION No.1 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 of the town, about 270 metres south-east of the road to Arras.
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