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Military service
Service number:
304030
Age:
23
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
10th Bty. 3rd Bde.
Birth:
September 30, 1894
Death:
September 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 8.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sabatino, of Lakefield, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Gunner Joseph Sabatino
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008. -
Attestation Papers
Attestation papers 1915 -
Document
What follows is the actual account, written in France October 11, 1918 of how Gunner Joseph Sabatino’s was killed: ”I happened to be with poor Joe, when he met his death. He was going to help a wounded comrade when he was hit in the head by a rifle bullet. He never spoke. In fact, it was so sudden that I thought that he had dropped on the ground to escape shell fire. I spoke to him and received no answer. I lifted him up and saw, at once, that he was gone. It was impossible to get the body away at the time, but the next morning, September 28, 1918 we went up again and took the remains back out of the shell fire and buried him well behind the lines. We erected a neat wooden cross with his name and number on it”.
Digital gallery of
Gunner Joseph Sabatino
Digital gallery of
Gunner Joseph Sabatino
Digital gallery of
Gunner Joseph Sabatino
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 496 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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