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Baptized Joseph-Maximin-Albert Gagné. Son of Zénophile Gagné (deceased in 1900) and Marie Onésime (aka Anyzie) Cardinal (deceased in 1900). He stated being born on the 27th when he enlisted.
Enlisted in the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on May 20, 1915, and landed in Plymouth, England, on the 29th. Falling ill on September 11, 1915, he was hospitalized for pulmonary tuberculosis and reassigned to the 23rd Reserve Battalion. Repatriated to Canada on December 22, 1915, he died on January 22, 1916, at the Laurentian Sanatorium in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts from a pancreatic hemorrhage. He was buried on the 26th.
Albert went to England with the 22nd Battalion but did not travel with them further. On 11 September 1915, just before the 22nd departed for the front, Albert was transferred to reinforcements due to an increasingly apparent lung problem. Medical examinations then revealed he had pulmonary tuberculosis, made worse by the rigors of the service. He was repatriated on 22 December and admitted to the Sanatorium Laurentien in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts. He died a month later of pancreatic hemorrhage. He was buried in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges military cemetery. His grave has since been exhumed and his remains are now in the ossuary. He is now commemorated on the Quebec Memorial at the Field of Honour in Pointe-Claire.
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Page 89 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MONTREAL (NOTRE DAME DES NEIGES) CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
Montreal (Notre Dame des Nieges) Cemetery adjoins the Mount Royal Cemetery, in Montreal, Québec, and a War Cross is erected on the dividing line. Access by car via Highway 15 (Decarie) south, and take the exit for Queen Mary Road. Follow signs for Cote des Neiges Road south. The entrance to the cemetery is on the left hand side of this road.
During both wars, Montreal was the headquarters of No. 4 Military District. The city had seven military hospitals with more than 900 beds during the First and Second World Wars. The Royal Air Force Ferry Command had its headquarters at Dorval Airport and there was a Royal Air Force Station at St.Hubert. Some graves cannot be individually marked and are commemorated on a bronze plaque fixed to the Cross of Sacrifice.
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