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29/11/2005

Decorated First World War veteran peacefully passes away

An act of teenage rebellion propelled Clare Laking to the front lines just after the Battle of Vimy Ridge where, between seeing fellow soldiers die and several near-misses with German shrapnel, he grew up fast.

The First World War veteran died early Saturday evening at Toronto’s Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, in the veterans’ wing where he’s lived for two years. He was 106, three months shy of his 107th birthday. for more click here

 
 

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