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Conscripted on 15 November 1917, number 835 86 DC in Montreal, Quebec, he was enrolled on 12 February 1918 in the 2nd Quebec Regiment. Arriving in England on 28 April 1918, he was posted to the 10th Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. On 8 September, he arrived in France with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles and on the 11th was transferred to the 22nd Battalion, which he joined in the front line on the 12th. He was killed in action on 2 October 1918 during the Battle of Cambrai, France, during a German counter-attack on Cagnicourt.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 371 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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