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Baptized Joseph-Télesphore-Albéric Gendron.
Son of Sifroid « Sigefried » Gendron and Georgiana Charron-dit-Ducharme, of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
He first enlisted with the 58th Battalion (service number 453058) in June 1915 and transferred to the 41th Battalion on September 16, 1915 (service number 417852).
He stated that his first name was Albert and that he was born in Berthierville in 1881 when he enlisted.
He was drafted into the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on July 6, 1915, and sailed for Great Britain on October 16, arriving in Plymouth, England, on the 28th. On April 20, 1916, he transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion until July 13, when he was assigned to the 69th Reserve Battalion. Transferred to the 22nd Battalion on October 27, he crossed to France on November 3 with the 69th Battalion. He arrived on the European continent that same day. From November 18 to 26, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. He rejoined the 22nd on the 26th. From February 23 to March 6, 1917, he returned temporarily to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. Upon returning to his unit, he went to the front lines. He was killed in action on August 18, 1917, during the Battle of Lens, Pas-de-Calais, near Cité St-Laurent, on Hill 70, during the capture of the Catapulte Trench.
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Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
His name is located on a plaque in the Notre Dame Cemetery, South Hadley, Massachusetts. The names on the plaques are only of French-Canadian men from Holyoke Massachusetts that died during World War 1, and the monument was erected in 1919. -
Memorial
A larger photo of the memorial. Taken and posted by an anonymous user on Find a Grave, though they provided permission to use the photo.
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Private Albert Gendron
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Private Albert Gendron
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Gendron
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Gendron
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Gendron
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Commemorated on:
Page 242 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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