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Private Joseph Alfred Aubin

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Military service

Service number: E/5779
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Birth: June 4, 1923 Amqui
Death: June 15, 1944 Burley, Ilkley

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 54. F. 7.
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Son of Arthur Aubin and Béatrice Bouliane from Amqui, Matapédia, Québec.

He first enlisted with the Royal 22nd Regiment on 13 June 1940 and was discharged on 22 August due to his young age. He re-enlisted on 2S September 1941 with the Voltigeurs de Québec and was transferred to the Royal 22e Régiment on the 23rd October.

He was killed on duty when the army lorry in which he was a passenger crashed into a building on 15 June 1944 in Main Street, Burley, Ilkley, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 240 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.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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