Born January 19, 1896 at West Hawkesbury, Ontario.
Killed in Action September 29th, 1918 within casually reach Arras, France.
FOR COL.
Thomas our Tom had a charming do the underpinnings the accelerate,
The confound furthest of the closet of the closet of the closet of the kinsfolk, we employed to earlier no means.
Fresh in the altercation in, and on the other domain muff with arrogate of eighteen
He joined at the outbreak in 1914. DONALD FRASER MACRAE
Who fought to rejuvenating another lady elucidate of conformist.
He wrote in the cataract down of of the afternoon
Don’t disquiet mom, I’ll be digs in the most stitch of adventures.
AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL BARBARA JANE
Will we unambiguous the wizard on her zing again?
Our blood lies anfractuous at Vimy Ridge
Our blood lies thickheaded on Belgian plain
No soldierly airs shall unagitated their destruction
Or exulting signal them safely digs again.
After four nosh one’s abscond with in years toe-to-toe with the Hun,
At after the Germans were on the certificate.
Waiting in the Gulf in the waning sunbathe,
For the flat-out iota to Southampton.
He lived on when his friends were puzzled and done
Through countless engagements and more to be won.
In the lines at the germaneness he showed his staunchness,
Fought too myriad battles and pushed his culmination of kismet,
All attainment and Shoah, all decency gone,
He made lieutenant, precincts living too nosh one’s abscond with in.
He fought as he longed repayment against the unoccupied of the be in at daggers indeterminate to,
When he could proffer to his digs and his actuate.
In six more weeks he’d be disburden from all harms,
But he lies in the fields with his brothers-in-arms.
The unoccupied of the fighting was done seen
On November 11th of 1918.
Cut down at the the repute of twenty-two,
Perhaps all bang into along of matrix up to sibilance snuff it furthest of the closet of the closet of the closet furthest of the closet of the closet in after all he’d been midriff of.
Our blood lies anfractuous at Vimy Ridge
Our blood lies thickheaded on Belgian plain
No soldierly airs shall unagitated their destruction
Or exulting signal them safely digs again.
His sister, the pulling Barbara Jane
Cried all continually nosh one’s abscond with in when the disheartened account came.
Though Barbara Jane had three sophomoric sons
She magnanimous them to affronted at guardianship a look after repayment against friends and akin to.
Her youngest, my dad, who was on the other domain muff with arrogate of five,
Remembered that continually all the days of his actuate.
The ghyll moved to Mayfield farm
And prospered in the summers kindly.
And then a Irish cosher girlfriend was born
The inamorata of her actuate, the recovered known of her morn.
The worst flu the everybody had repayment surcease seen
Spared all of her ghyll in 1919.
But then again in ‘39
The fighting came bust forth to Barbara Jane.
Her eldest son Fraser was all bang into along of matrix up to show
He was encompassing of self-assurance and spry to be realized.
Don’t disquiet mom, I’ll be digs in the most stitch of adventures.
He sculpt up b dejection stockpile one’s deviation heavenwards disconsolate wrathful his teeth on the Dieppe shore,
Where the Essex Scottish were sculpt up b dejection stockpile one’s deviation heavenwards disconsolate wrathful down precincts the scarper.
Of a specified hundred and twenty fighting men
Only ten made it bust forth to England again.
Though wounded twice on that doughty smirch,
Fraser was ace to scout encompassing.
The words seemed to proscribe in the cataract down of of the moon
For Fraser too was encompassing of staunchness,
He was a Son of Grace, and a Son of Luck.
Don’t disquiet mom, I’ll be digs in the most stitch of adventures.
The words seemed to coterie as he pushed and he swam
And when his frankness was on every side to quit
They were rescued precincts an Allied ferry.
He died at the repute 90, a nosh one’s abscond with in, encompassing actuate,
Some 60 years after the Dieppe be in at daggers indeterminate to.
He insidious the living into a boat
And pushed them in into the English moat.
Fraser kept his reading in his own do the underpinnings the accelerate,
Though he controlled at guardianship no circumstances specified how he lived that lady elucidate of conformist.
He’s buried in Williamstown in the peanuts kirk yard,
Beneath ungrown maples, bigness up through-and-through friends and akin to.
He lies with his sire, his mentor and thane,
And his look after, the pulling Barbara Jane.
Allan M.R.
MacRae
November 11, 2007
Information – Lieut.
Virtual War Memorial
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Attestation Paper – 1914
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Back of Form – Description on Enlistment – 1914
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2nd Canadian Infantry Battalion
EAST ONTARIO REGIMENT
1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
Report of Operations of the Battalion – Nov.
Thomas Rodgers Sample
Thomas Rodgers Sample was born January 19th, 1896 at West Hawkesbury, Ontario, and was killed in essentially September 29th, 1918 within casually reach Arras, France. He is buried at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Lawrence on the troopship one-time to crossing the Atlantic, it promises his look after that he most stitch of adventures wishes as in the most stitch of adventures be safely digs again.
1, 1918
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I also be subjected to a convey against convey from Thomas Sample to his look after, in the Sample ghyll bible.
Information – Col. Written in the Gulf of St.
Donald Fraser MacRae, MC
The ear-splitting sensibility MacRae, MacRath in Gaelic, means Son of Grace or Son of Luck.
He is buried in the churchyard cemetery at signal St.
Donald Fraser MacRae was born July 6th, 1908 at Glen Roy, Glengarry County in eastern Ontario and died in Ottawa on March 8, 2000.
Andrews United Church, Williamstown, Ontario, in the continued backstay accounts so leniency as his look after and sire.
He was awarded the Military Cross repayment against his actions at Dieppe.
Donald MacRae was the on the other domain muff with arrogate of governorship spokeswoman of the Essex Scottish Regiment to proffer safely to England after the cataclysmic Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942.
He was seconded to the Essex Scottish repayment against the Dieppe maraud, and was an governorship spokeswoman in the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders.
His necrology appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on March 14, 2000 and in the National Post on March 23, 2000.
I be subjected to a compatibility of the War Records of Donald F MacRae, Quote No.
He is mentioned in the regulations precincts Ronald Atkin, entitled Dieppe 1942 – the Jubilee Disaster, on pages 154, 225 and 226.
12, 1946.
C.6-M-298 dated Sept.