Lloyd MacDonald F/5476 Private Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps October 27, 1917 (attestation paper shows year of birth as 1918) Trenton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia April 17, 1942 24 New Glasgow, Pictou County, NS High St., Trenton, Pictou County, NS Fireman/Steelworker Roman Catholic Single Ruth MacDonald (Mother) Trenton, NS October 8, 1944 25 Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery Commemorated on Page 371 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 7

Lloyd MacDonald F/5476 Private Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps October 27, 1917 (attestation paper shows year of birth as 1918) Trenton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia April 17, 1942 24 New Glasgow, Pictou County, NS High St., Trenton, Pictou County, NS Fireman/Steelworker Roman Catholic Single Ruth MacDonald (Mother) Trenton, NS October 8, 1944 25 Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery Commemorated on Page 371 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 7 Lloyd MacDonald was the son of William R. MacDonald (b. circa 1895) and Ruth Macdonald (b. circa 1894) of Trenton, Pictou Co., NS. He was the brother of Gerald MacDonald (b. circa 1924) and Marjorie MacDonald (b. circa 1922). Lloyd completed basic training in Course 3 at No. 61 Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre in New Glasgow, NS, on February 8, 1941, and was recalled on March 12, 1942. He also trained at the A5 Canadian Engineering Training Centre at Petawawa. He served in Canada until March 10, 1943; and in England between March 11, and September 22, 1944. He continued his training in the UK and qualified as a plumber and a welder, but transferred to the Black Watch of Canada on September 29, 1944, having crossed the English Channel to North West Europe. He died of wounds received in action on October 8, 1944, while serving in Belgium. He was initially interred in a garden near Boterberg Chateau (Kasteel Boterberg) north of Cappellen (Kapellenbos) in Belgium on October 9, 1944, and was reinterred at the Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.