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He enlisted for the first time on January 7, 1940, and was discharged in July of the same year, claiming to have been born in 1921 because of his young age. He enlisted a second time on August 8, 1940, under the name Hector Dumont, regimental number E-5850, and a third time, again with the Royal 22e Régiment, on December 5, 1940, with the same regimental number and coordinates, but under the name Hector Demers. Highly undisciplined, he crossed to Great Britain, arriving on November 24, 1941. After several weeks' detention, he was transferred on November 12, 1942 to the 1st Road Construction Company of the Royal Canadian Engineer, with the serial number E-28473 assigned on the previous October 6. He transferred to the 1st Canadian General Pioneer Company and accidentally drowned on March 31 or April 1, 1943. His body was found on the 13th in Borough of Croydon, Sussex, England. He was buried on the 17th with the permission of Coroner Beecher-Jackson. He had 513 days of service, including 513 overseas.
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Page 152 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
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