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Captain Malcolm Archibald McKechnie

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Military service

Age: 29
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division: 6th Field Amb
Birth: January 11, 1889 Gillies Hill, Ontario
Enlistment: June 8, 1916 Manitoba
Death: August 8, 1918 Amiens, France

Burial/memorial information

VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: V. A. 6.
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Son of Donald McKechnie and Barbara Munn, of Walkerton, Bruce, Ontario. He was the doctor of the 179th Battalion, from his enrolment until the unit’s arrival in England in October 1916. He served at the front, from March 1917 until he died, with the 6th Canadian Field Ambulance.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 460 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Vignacourt is a village in the Department of the Somme on the west of the road from Amiens to Doullens. The VIGNACOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is on the road to Fleselles.

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