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Only son of Allen Cameron MacKay and Margaret J. MacKay, of Toronto, Ontario.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
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)
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
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)
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Section 1 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Section 2 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Section 3 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Letter in the Renfrew Mercury for 9 April 1915 describing the death of Cameron Mackay.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
From the Perth Courier for 2 April 1915.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Letter published in the Perth Courier for 2 April 1915 referring to the death of Cameron MacKay.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Pte. William Allan Cameron MacKay's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a bank clerk. He volunteered to serve early in the war and signed his military attestation on September 22nd, 1914 at Valcartier Camp, Quebec. He was a member of the historic First Canadian Contingent. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
Detail of Pte. William Allan Cameron MacKay's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour.
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Private William Allan Cameron MacKay
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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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)
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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)
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Section 1 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Section 2 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Section 3 of a clipping from page 1 of the Renfrew Mercury for 2 April 1915.
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Letter in the Renfrew Mercury for 9 April 1915 describing the death of Cameron Mackay.
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From the Perth Courier for 2 April 1915.
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Letter published in the Perth Courier for 2 April 1915 referring to the death of Cameron MacKay.
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Pte. William Allan Cameron MacKay's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a bank clerk. He volunteered to serve early in the war and signed his military attestation on September 22nd, 1914 at Valcartier Camp, Quebec. He was a member of the historic First Canadian Contingent. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses.
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Detail of Pte. William Allan Cameron MacKay's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour.
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From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 26 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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