Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of William and Mary McDiarmid of Carleton Place, Ontario.
Brother of Private Eugene Arthur McDiarmid, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) and Private Harold William McDiarmid, who died while serving with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
Brother of Edward, Frank, Leo James, Jane, Evangeline, Nathalie and Frances.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Victor McDiarmid by naming a street in his honour.
Digital gallery of Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
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Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Victor Lionel Mcdiarmid
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Inscription
He is commemorated in Canada in his family plot at Carleton Place United Cemetery. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
Digital gallery of
Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 280 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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