Name: Leo Frank LeBlanc Rank: Private Service Number: 3080339 Service: 42nd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: October 8, 1898 Place of Birth: Abrams River, Argyle, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: November 12, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Montreal, Quebec Address at Enlistment: 7 Fitch Court, Wakefield, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Age at Enlistment: 19 Height: 5 feet, 4 inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Labourer Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Remi Joseph LeBlanc (Brother), 22 Sullivan St, Charlestown, Boston, Mass. Date of Discharge: July 18, 1919, (Halifax) Date of Death: January 18, 1991 Age: 92 Cemetery: Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Grave: Section 01F, Lot 352, Grave 1 Leo Frank LeBlanc was the son of Alfred Frederick LeBlanc (b. 1870-) and Mary Julia ‘Minnie’ T. (Clairmont/Clement) LeBlanc (1873-1909), the twin brother of Corinne Mary LeBlanc Flynn (1898- 1991), and brother of Remi Joseph Leblanc (1897-1962), William Claude White LeBlanc (b. 1903), Marguerite E. LeBlanc (1908-2006), and Thomas LeBlanc. Some records list his name was Francis Leo and his family surname as White. He married Kathleen Veronica Wilband (1898-1987) in 1927. Leo and his twin sister Corinne were living with their maternal grandparents Remi Clairmont [Clements] (1845-1943) and Marguerite (Leblanc) Clairmont [Clements] (1845-1942) in the 1911 census, as their mother Julia died in 1909. After enlisting in November of 1917 at the age of 19, Leo served in Canada, England, and France. He enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion, Quebec Regiment and then served with the 42 Battalion, the Royal Highlanders of Canada with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France. He embarked Halifax on February 3 and disembarked at Liverpool, England on February 16, 1918. He transferred from England to France, landing in France on June 2, 1918. Leo suffered a gun shot or gun shrapnel wound to his right shoulder and was admitted to the No. 26 Canadian General Hospital in Étaples, Pas de Calais, France on August 8, 1918. September 1st, he was transferred to the No. 12 Convalescent Depot at Aubengue, September 18th, he was transferred to the No. 10 Convalescent Depot at Écault, and on September 25th, he was discharged from care to rest at Camp 5 at Ostrohove / Saint-Martin-Boulogne, France. Both Convalescent hospitals were also in the Pas de Calais region of France. He returned to Canada aboard the SS Mauritania on June 28, 1919. He was discharged at Halifax with demobilisation on July 18, 1919, at Halifax, NS. He died at the age of 92 and is interred at the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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