Private JOHN MACRITCHIE
Last address in Lewis: 67 Kipper Road
Next of kin: Donald Mcritchie, of 171 Semington Ave, Toronto
Military unit: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Service number: 51312
Date of death: 8 May 1915 at the age of 40
Killed in action.
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 10
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
Date of birth: 9 October 1879
Height: 5 ft 7 in Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Mouse
Religion: Church of England
Trade / occupation: Labourer
Volunteered at Winnipeg on 24 December 1914
Had gone to Canada in 1912. Saw active service in India in the Sudan and in South Africa, for which he held 3 medals with 9 bars.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial website at Veterans Affairs Canada shows this man as the son of Roderick and Jessie MacRitchie of Stornoway. He had a wife, Janet Fleming MacRitchie of Toronto. I believe that the Toronto address from the Attestation paper may be Leamington Avenue, although it reads as Semington.
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