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Albert Gratton

In memory of:

Private Albert Gratton

May 6, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

145114

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

August 19, 1897
Butte, Montana

Enlistment:

September 2, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Arthur Gratton and Marie Hébert, of Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 246 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

I. A. 21.

Location:

Neuville-St Vaast is a village 6.5 kilometres north of Arras, a little east of the road from Bethune to Arras. LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village on the north-west side of the road to the village of Maroeuil.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Grave Marker– While researching a project and checking images at Library and Archives Canada, it became apparent that this photograph showed the original grave site of Private Albert Gratton (2nd cross from left). A search of the records showed that he was buried at the Aux Rietz Military Cemetery. After the Armistice the CWGC reports that 16 graves were concentrated from the area into the La Targette British Cemetery. A check of the records show that Gratton is in Plot 1 Row A Grave 21 and the 1st cross is that of Pte. J. H. Arsenault of the Royal Canadian Regiment in Plot 1 Row A Grave 20. That means that these are original graves in the cemetery, not concentrations. The rest of the graves in that row can thus be identified.

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    Grave Marker – While researching a project and checking images at Library and Archives Canada, it became apparent that this photograph showed the original grave site of Private Albert Gratton (2nd cross from left). A search of the records showed that he was buried at the Aux Rietz Military Cemetery. After the Armistice the CWGC reports that 16 graves were concentrated from the area into the La Targette British Cemetery. A check of the records show that Gratton is in Plot 1 Row A Grave 21 and the 1st cross is that of Pte. J. H. Arsenault of the Royal Canadian Regiment in Plot 1 Row A Grave 20. That means that these are original graves in the cemetery, not concentrations. The rest of the graves in that row can thus be identified.
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    Grave marker
  • Photo of Albert Gratton– From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.

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    Photo of Albert Gratton
    Photo of Albert Gratton – From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.

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