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Vincent Terrance MacDonald
Vincent Terrance MacDonald
Sergeant
F/54836
Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
June 5, 1921
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, NS
October 16, 1939
New Waterford, NS
New Waterford, NS
18
5 feet, 7½ inches
Fair
Brown
Brown
Grocery Clerk
Single (at Enlistment)
Roman Catholic
Allan Joseph MacDonald (Father) Waterford, NS
Mary Elizabeth (Wife) Florence, Cape Breton, NS. (October 31, 1941)
April 10, 1944
22
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery
IX. A. 7.
Commemorated on page 372 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 7
Vincent Terrance MacDonald was the son of Allan Joseph and Elizabeth MacDonald and husband of Mary
Elizabeth MacDonald, of Florence, Cape Breton, NS.
He served in Canada between October 16, 1939 and November 10, 1941; in the United Kingdom between
November 11, 1941 and January 12, 1944; and in Italy from January 13, 1944 until his death.
Sergeant MacDonald died on April 10, 1944 of wounds the result of a land mine received in action on April
8, 1944. He was initially buried at San Vito, Italy and reburied in 1946 in the Moro River Canadian War
Cemetery.