Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Duncan MacDonald
In memory of:
Private Duncan MacDonald
April 12, 1917
Military Service
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
1st Bn.
Additional Information
May 24, 1888
Son of Norman and Flora Macdonald, of New Park, Portnaguran, Stornoway, Scotland.
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
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
VI. E. 9.
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.
Digital Collection
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Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Photo of DUNCAN MACDONALD – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Grave Marker – Taken July 7, 2008 -
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Photo of Duncan Macdonald -
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Newspaper Clipping – In honoured memory.
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