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Baptized Charles-Eugène Corbin. Son of Wilfrid Corbin and Mathilda Côté, of St-Paul-de-la-Croix, Bas St-Laurent, Québec.
Eugène had been wounded and evacuated twice in England: from the 22nd Battalion in November 1915 and from the 3rd Battalion in June 1916. He returned to the 3rd Battalion in France on 3 September 1916 and was killed in action one month later.
Digital gallery of Private Eugène Corbin
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Private Eugène Corbin
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 21 of 900. Private Eugène Corbin was originally buried ¾ mile West of Le Sars, 4 ¼ miles South-West of Bapaume. After the Armistice during the concentration of graves process, his body was exhumed and re-interred in Adanac Military Cemetery.
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Private Eugène Corbin
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 21 of 900. Private Eugène Corbin was originally buried ¾ mile West of Le Sars, 4 ¼ miles South-West of Bapaume. After the Armistice during the concentration of graves process, his body was exhumed and re-interred in Adanac Military Cemetery.
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Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.
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