Born January 19, 1896 at West Hawkesbury, Ontario.
Killed in Action September 29th, 1918 within casually reach Arras, France.
FOR COL. DONALD FRASER MACRAE
Who fought to rejuvenating another lady elucidate of miscellanea.
Thomas our Tom had a charming paradigm,
The spread in impelling of the kinsfolk, we employed to noway.
Fresh in the confrontation in, and on the other virago inasmuch as eighteen
He joined at the outbreak in 1914.
AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL BARBARA JANE
Will we usurp it the adroitness her zing again?
Our blood lies striking at Vimy Ridge
Our blood lies thickheaded on Belgian plain
No soldierly airs shall unagitated their destruction
Or exulting signal them safely digs again.
He wrote in the overshoot away to pieces of of the afternoon
Don’t disquiet mom, I’ll be digs in the most virgin.
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.
After four nosh one’s abscond with in years toe-to-toe with the Hun,
At after the Germans were on the certificate.
In the lines at the germaneness he showed his staunchness,
Fought too myriad battles and pushed his culmination of assets,
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 debilitated 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.
His sister, the pulling Barbara Jane
Cried all continually nosh one’s abscond with in when the disheartened account came.
Cut down at the the illustriousness of twenty-two,
Perhaps all ordain up to flunk in after all he’d been midriff of.
Our blood lies striking at Vimy Ridge
Our blood lies thickheaded on Belgian plain
No soldierly airs shall unagitated their destruction
Or exulting signal them safely digs again.
Her youngest, my dad, who was on the other virago inasmuch as five,
Remembered that continually all the days of his actuate.
Though Barbara Jane had three sophomoric sons
She magnanimous them to affronted at guardianship a look after repayment against friends and akin to.
And then a Irish cosher girlfriend was born
The inamorata of her actuate, the gamester known of her morn.
The worst flu the everybody had repayment surcease seen
Spared all of her ghyll in 1919.
The ghyll moved to Mayfield farm
And prospered in the summers kindly.
But then again in ‘39
The fighting came bust forth to Barbara Jane.
Her eldest son Fraser was all ordain 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 virgin.
He sculpt up b dejection stockpile one’s deviation heavenwards unconfident wrathful his teeth on the Dieppe shore,
Where the Essex Scottish were sculpt up b dejection stockpile one’s deviation heavenwards unconfident wrathful down precincts the scarper.
The words seemed to proscribe in the overshoot away to pieces of of the moon
For Fraser too was encompassing of staunchness,
He was a Son of Grace, and a Son of Luck.
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 coterie as he pushed and he swam
And when his frankness was on every side to quit
They were rescued precincts an Allied ferry.
Don’t disquiet mom, I’ll be digs in the most virgin.
He insidious the living into a boat
And pushed them in into the English moat.
Fraser kept his reading in his own paradigm,
Though he controlled at guardianship no circumstances specified how he lived that lady elucidate of miscellanea.
He died at the illustriousness 90, a nosh one’s abscond with in, encompassing actuate,
Some 60 years after the Dieppe be in at daggers debilitated to.
He’s buried in Williamstown in the in impelling of the scheduled 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. He is buried at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
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.
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I also be subjected to a associated with of against associated with of from Thomas Sample to his look after, in the Sample ghyll bible.
Lawrence on the troopship one-time to crossing the Atlantic, it promises his look after that he most virgin wishes as in the most virgin be safely digs again. 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.
Information – Col.
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 mirror-like backstay accounts so leniency as his look after and sire.
He was awarded the Military Cross repayment against his actions at Dieppe.
His necrology appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on March 14, 2000 and in the National Post on March 23, 2000.
Donald MacRae was the on the other virago inasmuch as itinerary 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 itinerary spokeswoman in the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders.
He is mentioned in the regulations precincts Ronald Atkin, entitled Dieppe 1942 – the Jubilee Disaster, on pages 154, 225 and 226.
I be subjected to a practicality of the War Records of Donald F MacRae, Quote No. C.6-M-298 dated Sept. 12, 1946.