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Private Adrien Forget

Military service

Service number: D/128606
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22e Régiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 8, 1920 Durham, Missisquoi
Enlistment: December 16, 1941
Death: December 30, 1944 Near Russi, Italy

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. C. 6.
Additional information

Baptized Camille Adrien Laurent Forget. Son of Charles Forget and Éva Lemoine of St-Hyacinthe, Québec. He had a fiancée of St-Hyacinthe.

On September 23, 1940, he enlisted in the St-Hyacinthe Regiment – NPAM – in St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, registration number D-456195. He stated that he was born in 1919. He was discharged from the army on November 7 of that year. On December 16, 1941, he re-enlisted in the 4th District Depot of the 1st Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, Company A, registration number D-128606. On December 12, 1942, he sailed for Great Britain, where he arrived on the 18th. On September 28, 1944, he left for the Mediterranean with Force M and landed in Italy on October 8. On December 4, 1944, he was transferred to the 4th Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment. He was killed in action on December 30, 1944, by shrapnel to the chest on the Senio dikes in the Russi sector. He was temporarily buried on the 31st along the road leading to Ravenna. After the war, around August 16, 1946, his body was exhumed and reburied in Ravenna. He had served 1,111 days, including 749 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 306 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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