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Excerpt from Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918: A Record of Service Was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1897. In November, 1915, he joined the staff Of the Bank Of Montreal. He enlisted in December, 1915, as a Private in the 5th Universities Company, recruited to reinforce the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and reached the firing line with his unit on June Ist, 1916. He was later appointed Lance Corporal and placed in charge Of one Of the machine-gun detachments Of his battalion. He was slightly wound ed On April 9, 1917, in the attack for the capture Of Vimy Ridge, and he was again wounded at Passchendaele in November, 1917. On his recovery he was given his commission as Lieutenant and attached to the g13t Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed at Ewars, not far from Cambrai, on October 11, 1918, in an attack on the enemy during the final Offensive Of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.