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Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he arrived in Plymouth, England, on 29 May 1915 and in France on 15 September.
Léon was seriously wounded to a leg and arm in May 1917 and he was evacuated in England. After five months in hospital, he was still frail and he was diagnosed with an acute endocarditis. Medically unfit, he was repatriated in May 1918 and was hospitalized in a military long-term care facility in Montréal. He died there of pneumonia two months later.
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Private Léon Cyr
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Private Léon Cyr
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Private Léon Cyr
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 393 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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STE. THERESE DE BLAINVILLE R. C. CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
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