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Private Albert Asselin

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Military service

Service number: 847658
Age: 30
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 10th Reserve Bn
Birth: August 31, 1887 St-Félix-de-Valois, Joliette, Québec
Enlistment: March 22, 1916 Montréal, Québec
Death: July 22, 1918 Bramshott, England

Burial/memorial information

GRAYSHOTT (ST. JOSEPH) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
Grave reference: B. 6.
Additional information
Baptized Louis-Joseph-Albert Asselin. Son of Thadée Asselin and Henriette-dite-Élisabeth Robert. Husband of Eulalie Sarrasin, of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born in 1888 when he enlisted.

Private Asselin was evacuated to the 22nd Battalion due to an appendicitis and was kept in England. He died of tetanus (lockjaw) Canadian General Hospital n° 12, in Bramshott, nine days after he wounded his hand on barb wire.

Additional citations

1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 361 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GRAYSHOTT (ST. JOSEPH) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD Hampshire, United Kingdom

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