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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
733858
Age:
19
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
2nd Bn.
Death:
August 13, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. AA. 9.
Additional information
Son of Francis 'Frank' Eldridge MacDonnell and Edith Elizabeth 'Ada' (née Brannen) of Lower Wood Harbor, Shelburne Co., Nova Scotia. Gladwyn was the youngest of their four sons serving overseas in the First World War. He also commemorated on a memorial headstone in Greenwood Cemetery , Woods Harbour.
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Corporal Gladwyn John MacDonnell
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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