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From the 10th Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on 20 April 1917. He fought in the trenches in the Lens sector, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he was wounded in the face on 23 July. In September 1917, he came under fire in the Caëstre sector, Pas-de-Calais, then in February 1918 at Liévin-Lens, and in April at Neuville-Vitasse, also in Pas-de-Calais. He was killed in action on 2 October 1918 in the Cambrai sector.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai) Nord, France
Tilloy-les-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai. Follow the N30 (Cambrai Ring Road) from Cambrai to its junction with the Tilloy-les-Cambrai road, the D49, just after the junction of the N30 and the N43 (Douai road). Follow the D49 for approximately 2.2 kilometres, crossing the bridge over the motorway, to a side road on the west-south-west (left) side. The Canada Cemetery lies 200 metres away at the end of the side road.
Tilloy was captured by the Canadian Corps about the 1st October, 1918, in the face of strong opposition, and the cemetery was made by their Burial Officer on the 13th October. It is enclosed by a brick wall, and sheltered from the road by a row of willows; and a maple tree is planted at the South-East corner.
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