Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John William MacDonald
In memory of:
Private John William MacDonald
March 27, 1917
Military Service
442738
30
Army
Canadian Pioneers
3rd Battalion
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Additional Information
November 10, 1886
Milan, Quebec
August 17, 1915
Vernon Camp, British Columbia
Son of Murdo H. and Christie MacDonald of Stornoway, Quebec. Brother of Mary E. MacDonald of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Commemorated on Page 281 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
IV. H. 22.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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