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Baptized Joseph Albert Duval. Son of Joseph-Napoléon Duval and Léocadie Veillette, of Montréal, Québec.
Conscripted under the National Resources Mobilization Act of 1917, call-up card number 116301 DC, he enlisted at the 4th Military Depot of the 2nd Depot of the 2nd Quebec Regiment of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On April 17, 1918, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he embarked for Great Britain and departed on the 28th from Liverpool. Upon arrival, he was incorporated into the 10th Reserve Battalion in Bramshott. On September 5, he was temporarily transferred to the 23rd Reserve Battalion and, on the same day, to the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. On the 6th, he crossed the English Channel and joined his new unit on the 9th. On September 11, 1918, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and went to the front line between Lens and Saint-Quentin on the Hindenburg Line. He was wounded by shrapnel.
As a conscript, Albert was certainly not at the front with enthusiasm. He arrived at the 22nd Battalion on 12 September 1918 and a month later, on 9 October, during the capture of the village of Escaudoeuvres, he was seriously injured with a shrapnel in the buttock. Immediately evacuated to England, he was treated and cured of his physical wounds, but in the meantime he developed a post-traumatic psychosis. Repatriated in February 1919, he was then hospitalized permanently in psychiatry. He died of pneumonia at the St-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital in Montreal and his death was declared to be attributable to service.
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Private Albert Duval
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Private Albert Duval
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Page 556 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MONTREAL (NOTRE DAME DES NEIGES) CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
Montreal (Notre Dame des Nieges) Cemetery adjoins the Mount Royal Cemetery, in Montreal, Québec, and a War Cross is erected on the dividing line. Access by car via Highway 15 (Decarie) south, and take the exit for Queen Mary Road. Follow signs for Cote des Neiges Road south. The entrance to the cemetery is on the left hand side of this road.
During both wars, Montreal was the headquarters of No. 4 Military District. The city had seven military hospitals with more than 900 beds during the First and Second World Wars. The Royal Air Force Ferry Command had its headquarters at Dorval Airport and there was a Royal Air Force Station at St.Hubert. Some graves cannot be individually marked and are commemorated on a bronze plaque fixed to the Cross of Sacrifice.
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