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Military service
Service number:
877125
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Birth:
July 7, 1885
Enlistment:
March 6, 1916
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 9, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 7.
Additional information
Son of Angus and Margaret MacDonald.
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Born July 7, 1885, Tarbot (St. Anns), Victoria Co., Nova Scotia, son of Angus MacDonald and Margaret MacInnis. WW1: Enlisted: 6 March, 1916 (attestation paper). 85th/185th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force Regimental Number: 877125 Cape Breton Highlanders Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 6753 - 48 Sailed from Halifax on October 13, 1916 on the Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic Fought on the western front in France Killed in action on 9 August 1918 during the second day of the Battle of Amiens. Buried at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, France (Plot I. I. 7.)
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Private Murdock MacDonald
FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.
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