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Private WILLIAM LEIGHFIELD MACARTNEY

Service Number: B/63568
Regiment & Unit/Ship

48th Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 17 September 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANCONA WAR CEMETERY

I. H. 14.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John and Gertrude Macartney, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription AND WHILE HE LIES IN PEACEFUL SLEEP HIS MEMORY I SHALL EVER KEEP. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

ANCONA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1021
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