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He enlisted with the 57th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was first transferred to the 69th Reserve Battalion on June 8, 1916, and then to the 22nd Battalion on August 27, the same day he arrived in France.
Odilon was evacuated from the unit following a severe left buttock injury that happened on 1 October 1916, during the assault on Regina Trench, in Courcelette. After three weeks, he was transferred in England, at the New Court Hospital, in Cheltenham. His condition worsened in the following weeks, and he died of septic pneumonia.
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Private Odilon Cayer
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Private Odilon Cayer
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Private Odilon Cayer
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Private Odilon Cayer
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CHELTENHAM CEMETERY Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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