Saturday 28 July 2007

Private Emile Brunet

Born on 20 September 1895 in St. Albert, Ontario - brother of Henry Brunet, St. Albert, Ontario - recruitment records provide the following: present address in St. Albert, Ontario, single, Roman Catholic, trade as cheese maker, no current or previous military service, height of 5 feet 5 inches, chest of 33.5 inches fully expanded, fair complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair.

Conscripted into the 2nd Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 30 April 1918 (number 3321098) - taken on the strength of the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion in France on 10 or 11 October 1918 - struck off the strength of the 38th Battalion on 16 June 1919.

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