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Military service
Service number:
B/63568
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
48th Highlanders of Canada
Death:
September 17, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 14.
Additional information
Son of John and Gertrude Macartney, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Private William Leighfield Macartney
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Badge
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Leighfield Macartney
Digital gallery of
Private William Leighfield Macartney
Digital gallery of
Private William Leighfield Macartney
Digital gallery of
Private William Leighfield Macartney
Digital gallery of
Private William Leighfield Macartney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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