Lessard, Albert

Regimental Number: 466626
Rank: Private
Branch: 10th Battalion

Albert was born in Brainerd, Minnesota on April 20, 1885. In 1913, he filed on a homestead at NW 30-77-20-W5. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in July of 1915. In September of the following year, Albert suffered from gunshot wounds to his hand. He suffered from severely contused shoulder and back in April 1917; at the time of this injury, he was reported to have died in action on April 9, 1917, but he was found alive a day or two later. On September 2, 1918, Albert was slightly wounded in the left upper eyelid by an egg bomb and a small piece of shrapnel was removed. Albert died in Koochiching County, Minnesota on July 3, 1960.

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