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Murdock MacDonald

In memory of:

Private Murdock MacDonald

August 9, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

877125

Age:

33

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)

Division:

85th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

July 7, 1885

Enlistment:

March 6, 1916
Sydney, Nova Scotia

Son of Angus and Margaret MacDonald.

Commemorated on Page 456 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

I. I. 7.

Location:

Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Murdock MacDonald– Born July 7, 1885, Tarbot (St. Anns), Victoria Co., Nova Scotia, son of Angus MacDonald and Margaret MacInnis. WW1: Enlisted: 6 March, 1916 (attestation paper). 85th/185th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force Regimental Number: 877125 Cape Breton Highlanders Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 6753 - 48 Sailed from Halifax on October 13, 1916 on the Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic Fought on the western front in France Killed in action on 9 August 1918 during the second day of the Battle of Amiens. Buried at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, France (Plot I. I. 7.)

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    Photo of Murdock MacDonald
    Photo of Murdock MacDonald – Born July 7, 1885, Tarbot (St. Anns), Victoria Co., Nova Scotia, son of Angus MacDonald and Margaret MacInnis. WW1: Enlisted: 6 March, 1916 (attestation paper). 85th/185th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force Regimental Number: 877125 Cape Breton Highlanders Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 6753 - 48 Sailed from Halifax on October 13, 1916 on the Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic Fought on the western front in France Killed in action on 9 August 1918 during the second day of the Battle of Amiens. Buried at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, France (Plot I. I. 7.)

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