Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Harold William McDiarmid
In memory of:
Private Harold William McDiarmid
April 14, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Military Service
414605
22
Army
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
6th Coy.
Additional Information
January 30, 1895
Carleton Place, Ontario
May 30, 1915
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
Son of William and Mary McDiarmid of Carleton Place, Ontario.
Brother of Private Victor Lionel McDiarmid, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) and Private Eugene Arthur McDiarmid, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).
Brother of Edward, Frank, Leo James, Jane, Evangeline, Nathalie and Frances.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Harold William McDiarmid by naming a street in his honour.
Commemorated on Page 280 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
XXII. H. 18.
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Photo of Harold William Mcdiarmid – From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
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Inscription – He is commemorated in Canada in his family plot at Carleton Place United Cemetery.
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