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A First War Victory Medal to the 75th Battalion; Killed in Night Attack South of Blecourt

Item: C3827

A First War Victory Medal to the 75th Battalion; Killed in Night Attack South of Blecourt

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A First War Victory Medal to the 75th Battalion; Killed in Night Attack South of Blecourt

(3034272 PTE. H.A. MC DONALD. 75-CAN.INF.). Naming is officially impressed, his last name spelled as McDonald (should be MacDonald). Contact marks and surface oxidation, very fine. Footnote: Howard Alexander MacDonald was born on June 29, 1894 in Campbellford, Ontario, the son of John MacDonald and Isabella MacDonald, the family later moving to Porquois Junction, Ontario. He was a resident of Porquois Junction when he signed his Particulars of Recruit Drafted Under Military Service Act 1917 Paper, Military Service Act No. 847643 G.C., as a Private (3034272), on March 22, 1918, in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 27, his Medical Examination having been previous performed at Haileybury, Ontario on November 12, 1917, naming his next-of-kin as his mother, Mrs. J. MacDonald of Porquois Junction, stating that he had no previous military service, that he was Single and that his trade was that of Farmer. In England, he was assigned to the 75th Infantry Battalion. Private Howard Alexander MacDonald died on September 30, 1918, at the age of 28 and is buried in the Canada Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Cambrai, Nord, France, Grave Reference: II. D. 25. Tilloy-les-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai. MacDonald is also commemorated on page 456 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.