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Baptized Camille Adrien Laurent Forget. Son of Charles Forget and Éva Lemoine of St-Hyacinthe, Québec. He had a fiancée of St-Hyacinthe.
On September 23, 1940, he enlisted in the St-Hyacinthe Regiment – NPAM – in St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, registration number D-456195. He stated that he was born in 1919. He was discharged from the army on November 7 of that year. On December 16, 1941, he re-enlisted in the 4th District Depot of the 1st Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, Company A, registration number D-128606. On December 12, 1942, he sailed for Great Britain, where he arrived on the 18th. On September 28, 1944, he left for the Mediterranean with Force M and landed in Italy on October 8. On December 4, 1944, he was transferred to the 4th Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment. He was killed in action on December 30, 1944, by shrapnel to the chest on the Senio dikes in the Russi sector. He was temporarily buried on the 31st along the road leading to Ravenna. After the war, around August 16, 1946, his body was exhumed and reburied in Ravenna. He had served 1,111 days, including 749 overseas.
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Page 306 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY Italy
The site for the cemetery was selected by the Army in 1945 for burials from the surrounding battlefields. Ravenna was taken by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of December 1944, and the burials in the cemetery there reflect the fighting for the Senio line and the period of relative quiet during the first three months of 1945. Many of the men buried there were Canadians; one of the last tasks of the Canadian Corps before being moved to north-west Europe was the clearing of the area between Ravenna and the Comacchio lagoon. Others are Indians from the 10th Indian Division, and New Zealanders. The Cemetery also contains the graves of 30, 1914-18 War casualties concentrated in March 1974 from Gradisca Communal Cemetery , Italy and 3 other burials concentrated from other minor cemeteries in Italy. There are now over 30 graves of the First World War and 956 graves plus one Special Memorial of the Second World War.
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