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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
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historian; spouse to @fionawhim; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): tinyurl.com/yksh3ksa antiquarian books: www.instagram.com/snapdragons.lair.books/
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As far as I know, Pte Nathanael Kern of Ontario was the last FWW Canadian soldier killed on active duty in France. He was a laborer with the Canadian War Graves Detachment. While clearing the battlefields in June 1919, he was fatally gassed by an exploding phosgene cylinder. Houchin Brit Cemetery

four witness reports from the incident that killed Pte. Kern in 1919 one reads, "I was standing about five feet from the gas cylinder when Lieut. Gatien shouted "Gas" and ran down the ravine. He afterwards came back and plugged the cylinder. I did not see how the cylinder exploded. screenshot from Pte. Kern's personnel file, LAC Canada https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/help/pffww
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Was it at Vimy Ridge or another cemetery?

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
historian; spouse to @fionawhim; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): tinyurl.com/yksh3ksa antiquarian books: www.instagram.com/snapdragons.lair.books/
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