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Gunner William McDonald

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Military service

Service number: 5998
Age: 23
Rank: Gunner
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 4th Bde.
Birth: July 29, 1893 Inverness, Scotland
Enlistment: September 10, 1914 Valcartier
Death: April 27, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. E. 15.
Additional information

Son of D. G. and Williamina McDonald, of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Additional citations

1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.

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