Military service
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He had previously served for a month with the 6th Regiment and enlisted with the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He arrived in England on 28 November 1915 and in France on 7 June 1916, joining his unit fighting at Zillebeke-Mont Sorrel (now Ypres) in Belgium. On 10 July 1916, he rejoined his unit in the front line and fought at Saint-Éloi, Somme. At 8 a.m. on the 24th, in the Ypres salient in Belgium, shells rained down on the Canadian lines. Omer suffered multiple shrapnel wounds at Mametz, Pas-de-Calais, and died of his wounds at 6 p.m. at the 10th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station at Mamtez, Pas-de-Calais, France.
British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Omer Cantin (1897-1916) -
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Parents of Omer Cantin
Abraham Cantin and Belzemire Demer, taken in the 1900 at St-Romuald, Quebec. Parents of Omer Cantin. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
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 77 of 1004. -
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Flanders Field
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Private Omer Cantin
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Private Omer Cantin
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Private Omer Cantin
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Private Omer Cantin
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Private Omer Cantin
Digital gallery of
Private Omer Cantin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 64 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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