49th Bn., Canadian Infantry, Service No: 425749.
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Panel 30.
Son of David and Agnes Turner MacMillan, of Lamloch, Carsphairn, Scotland.
No. 425749, 49th Battn. Canadian Infantry,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd son Of David
MacMillan, late of Changue Barr, co, Ayr, of 125,
Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg, Canada, by his
wife, Agnes Turner (19, Argyle Place, Edin-
burgh), dau. of John McCulloch, of Laggan, Bal-
lantrae ; and brother to Private William M'Call
b. Barr, co. Ayr, 26
MacMillan (q.v.) ,
educated Barr and Girvan Acadamies
Oct. 1897 ;
; went to Canada in 1912, and entered
the Union Bank, Winnipeg ; volunteered for
active service in Jan. 1916, and joined the
Canadian Infantry ; served with the Expedi-
tionary Force in France and Flanders from
April, 1916, and was killed in action at
Passchendaele 30 Oct. 1917. Buried in Nine
Elms Cemetery there ; unm.
Ancestry:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/180802960/person/142428699941/facts Of the 588 who went into battle near Bornstraat on the 30th October 1917 during the battle of Passchendaele, only 142 walked out on October 31st 1917.
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