Gunner George A McDougall born in Moncton, New Brunswick on 26 March 1881. Next of kin, his wife, Mrs Ella McDougall of 8 Pacific Avenue, Moncton, NB.
Attestation of Gunner George McDougall
Gunner George A McDougall 43901 attested 20 September 1914 in Valcartier, QC. Previous service with 74th Regiment, NB. A painter. Standing 5′ 5″ tall with fresh complexion, blue eyes and dark hair. Woman’s head on right forearm tattoo, and also Indian’s head, skull, snake, crosses, swords and letter through heart dagger, all on left arm tattoo.
1st Divisional Ammunition Column
Organized in August 1914 initially under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Jenkins Penhale. Mobilized at Valcartier, and left Quebec on 30 September 1914 aboard SS MEGANTIC and SS MONTEZUMA, and later arrived in England on 14 October 1914 with a strength of 30 officers, 561 other ranks.
Arrived in France later on 12 February 1915 with the 1st Canadian Divisional Artillery. Divisional Ammunition Columns responsible for the delivery of ammunitions to batteries and other units from ammunition refilling points.
Second Battle of Ypres
Gunner George McDougall killed in action by rifle fire, 22 April 1915 near Bank Farm, 3 1/4 miles north east of Ypres. Grave registered later at Sheet 28.C.24.b.45.60.
Victory Medal, British War Medal and ’15 Star sent to his mother Mrs A McDougall of 124 Lutes Street, Moncton, NB. Gunner George McDougall’s body brought back four kilometers to the west following the Armistice to New Irish Farm Cemetery.
New Irish Farm Cemetery
The cemetery located to the north-east of the town of Ieper. New Irish Farm Cemetery initially used from August to November 1917 and named after a nearby farm, known to the troops as ‘Irish Farm’ (originally an Irish Farm Cemetery immediately South of the Farm). New Irish Farm Cemetery about 300 metres North of the Farm at a crossing once known as Hammond’s Corner.
The cemetery used again in April and May 1918 and at the Armistice it contained just 73 burials. The three irregular rows of Plot I – but greatly enlarged when more than 4,500 graves brought in from the battlefields north-east of Ypres (now Ieper) and from smaller cemeteries.
4,719 commonwealth servicemen of the Great War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 3,271 of the burials unidentified, but special memorials commemorate four casualties known, or believed buried among them. Other special memorials also record the names of 30 casualties buried in four of the cemeteries removed to New Irish Farm whose graves destroyed by shell fire.
Private John Lambert
The burial of Private John Lambert, two unknown British soldiers and also an unknown German soldier takes place at 11 am Central European Summer Time (CEST) on June 30, 2022 at New Irish Farm Cemetery, near Ypres in Belgium.
In 2016, multiple sets of human remains found during a planned archaeological dig near Langemark, Belgium. The Canadian Armed Forces later confirmed the identity of one of these sets of remains to be those of Private John Lambert, a member of The Newfoundland Regiment perpetuated by the The Royal Newfoundland Regiment.