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Military service
Service number:
889878
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
September 11, 1893
Newport, Gaspésie, Québec
Enlistment:
April 1, 1916
Chandler, Gaspésie, Québec
Death:
August 10, 1918
Méharicourt, France
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Son Philomène Desbois (deceased 1910) and James Roy (remarried 1910 to Marguerite Wall), of Grand-Pabos-Ouest, Gaspésie, Québec. He attested that he was born in 1894.
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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Private Albert Roy
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Private Albert Roy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 495 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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