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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Lennoxville
• Land Quebec
• Family Son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bassett, of Edmonton, Alberta; single.
• Profession Druggist

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 8 October 1915, Montreal
• Service number 475397
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
• Attached or transferred from 4th University Company
• Other data related to military career Arrived in England 7 December 1915, posted to 11th Battalion; to France, where he joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field March 19, 1916; battalion relieved 3rd Bn Rifle Brigade in Maple Copse and Railway Dugouts 21 Mar 1916. Moved forward and relieved 49th Bn CEF in the Sanctuary Wood trenches;

Death

• Wounded 26 March, Sanctuary Wood
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wound head at n°10 CCS.
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - D - 22

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