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APPENDIX A Weaponry and Wartime Experience
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Experiences ( 8 pages )
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In 1912, after 27 years' service and growing increasingly hard of hearing, Oscar Pelletier decided to retire. He was living quietly in Kamouraska, Quebec, when, in August 1914, he was entrusted with a special mission: to go to Anticosti Island and secure control of a Marconi radio unit that might be a target for the Germans. Even before the war officially began, Pelletier was on his way to the island, located in the mouth of the St Lawrence River, with a small party of men. He remained on Anticosti until October when he was relieved by a permanent team.
Pelletier then resumed his retirement, but the war was not over for the Pelletier family. His elder daughter became a volunteer nurse, and one of his sons, also a volunteer, would die in September 1916 as a result of wounds sustained in combat.
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