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In memory of:

Private Eugène Corbin

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Military service

Service number: 448058
Age: 22
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 3rd Bn.
Birth: July 31, 1894 St-Paul-de-la-Croix, Bas St-Laurent
Enlistment: May 29, 1915
Death: October 8, 1916 Le Sars, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: V. F. 2.
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Baptized Charles-Eugène Corbin. Son of Wilfrid Corbin and Mathilda Côté, of St-Paul-de-la-Croix, Bas St-Laurent, Québec.

Eugène had been wounded and evacuated twice in England: from the 22nd Battalion in November 1915 and from the 3rd Battalion in June 1916. He returned to the 3rd Battalion in France on 3 September 1916 and was killed in action one month later.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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