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Baptized Frank-Ferdinando-Thomas Lanchetti. Son of Ferdinando Lanchetti and Jennie Mann, of Toronto, Ontario. He had declared to be born in 1895 when he enlisted.
On August 9th, 1918, during the Battle of Amiens, he was shot in the spine and lost the use of his legs. After six months of treatment in England he was repatriated and admitted to the Dominion Orthopedic Hospital in Toronto. After another year of treatment he died there of a disease (pyelitis) caused by his paralysis.
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Page 550 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TORONTO (MOUNT HOPE) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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