1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Hector Macdonald

Contributed by: Janet Campbell, on 2008-11-04

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Rank
First Name Hector
Surname Macdonald
Year of Birth 1894
Year of Death 1916
Regiment Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Place of Wartime Residence Edinburgh, Midlothian

Hector's Story

Killed whilst removing the injured from the field of battle. He was killed on the Somme on 13th August 1916, shot throught the neck by a sniper. He has no known grave; he is remembered on the memorial at Thiepval, France.

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