SOLDIER DETAILS:
McIntyre,
Mark Calvin
Driver 5th Brigade
Canadian Field Artillery 324009
Crucifix
Corner Cemetery France
Parents from Moffat (Milton) Ontario
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project |
Haltonville Cenotaph
R. Laughton
Crucifix Corner Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves
Maple Leaf Legacy Project
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Driver
McIntyre
is buried in Crucifix Corner Cemetery at Grave I.
B. 6.
He is remembered on the Haltonville
Memorial in Milton ON.
Grave photo courtesy of Steve Douglas at the Maple
Leaf Legacy Project. |
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| For details on the opening battle of "Canada's
Hundred Days" please see Chapters Iv, V and VI of
Livesay's text by that name:
Livesay, J. F. B. 1919.
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to
Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Thomas Allen, Toronto. (Available
on the Internet as an Archive Download) |
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Driver Mark McIntyre was a "Northern Boy"
born in Calvin, Ontario but at the time of attestation on May 3,
1916 he was a resident farmer living with his parents in Milton
(Moffat - 15th Sideroad - bordering Guelph).
McIntyre signed up with the 55th Battery, which became part of
the13th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. He arrived in England
in September 1916. After some juggling between units as the CEF
was reorganizing (14th & 16th Brigades), he was transferred
to the 81st Battery 15th Brigade in March 1917 and moved
overseas to France as a reinforcement. Shortly after arriving in
France he suffered from pleurisy,
spending almost a month in hospital. He was released to the Artillery
Regimental Depot in England in May 1917 then transferred to
the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, back in France, then back
to the 5th Brigade CFA in the 2nd Canadian Division in September
1917. There he was awarded a "Good Conduct Badge" and
apparently served his time in the artillery for 11 months.
While serving with the 5th Brigade, Driver McIntyre was
killed in action on August 8, 1918, the opening day of battle
recorded in history as "Canada's Hundred Days". The August
War Diary shows action between Amiens-Roye road at that
time. The 5th Brigade was a "mobile support" as
detailed in the diary of August
8, 1918.
McIntyre fell to shelling from the German artillery
as
noted here when the 18th and 20th Batteries suffered
"fairly heavy casualties". Mark McIntyre was one of
the 5 "Other Ranks" killed in action on that day. An
"18 Pounder" artillery piece was also lost that
day, so it is possible that McIntyre and the 4 others lost were
on that gun when it was hit. |
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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