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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

 

55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

John MacGregor

 

Citation

 

Medals

 

MIKAN 3218870 a004598-v8
Capt. John MacGregor, V.C., M.C., D.C.M., 2nd C.M.R. Bn.
April 1919

 

MIKAN 3218871
(2nd from left:) Capt. J. MacGregor, V.C., M.C. and Bar. and Lt. R. Darcus, M.C. (right) 
April 1919

 

MIKAN 3218872
Capt. J. MacGregor, M.C., D.C.M., 2nd C.M.R.
April 1919

 

Grave - New CWGC grave stone 2008.

 

Lt Col Cyrus Peck VC - one of three Canadian VC recipients at Macgregor's funeral.

 

© IWM (Q 9349)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). A cyclist-messenger's dug-out near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9364)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Mark V Tanks going forward with the 'cribs' carried to enable them to cross the Hindenburg
Line, Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9365)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the American 30th Infantry Division at rest with German prisoners following the
capture of Bellicourt, 29th September 1918. In the background are British Mark V Tanks with 'cribs' of the 8th Battalion, Tank Corps,
which were one of four battalions of the V Tank Brigade allotted to the 5th Australian Division and American Corps for the operation.

 

© IWM (Q 9366)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Prisoners with American escort (30th Division) resting in the foreground. In the
background, four 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, Mark V Tanks with 'cribs' on their roofs. These were attached to the 5th Australian
Division, Fourth Army Front, near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9367)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the 5th Australian Division advancing across country in artillery formation from
its assembly area around Hesbecourt towards Bellicourt and the starting line of the 30th American Division. An 8th Battalion, Tank
Corps, Mark V Tank with 'crib' is going ahead, near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9368)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the 5th Australian Division advancing across country from their assembly area near
Hesbecourt to leap-frog the American 30th Division. They are passing 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, Mark V Tanks with 'cribs', near
Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9369)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the American 30th Division and 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, Mark V Tanks with 'cribs'
going forward, near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9370)
Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Prisoners bringing in wounded as Mark V Tanks with 'cribs' advance near Bellicourt, 29th
September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9371)
Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the American 30th Division and 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, Mark V Tanks with
'cribs' advancing, near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918. (See also Q 9369).

 

© IWM (Q 9536)
Soldier of the 30th American Division with a German prisoner captured in the Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Near Bellicourt, 29
September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11758)
Battle of Ypres. Men of the 107th Brigade (Royal Irish Rifles) 36th Division in support near Potijze, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11759)
Battle of Ypres. Ruins of the Cloth Hall Ypres, with remains of limbers and horses caught by shell fire in foreground, 29 September
1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11760)
Battle of Ypres. 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, Pioneers of 29th Division, repairing the old plank road to the left of Hooge,
29 September 1918. A stretcher case being taken back on the left, shall holes and old dug outs in foreground and another working party
in the background.

 

© IWM (Q 11761)
Battle of Ypres. Remains of the Menin Road near Gheluvelt. 29th Division limbers held up by impassable road and shells being taken
forward by pack mules. A crater, mud and wreck of battle in foreground, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11762)
Battle of Ypres. Remains of the Menin Road near Gheluvelt. 29th Division limbers held up by impassable road and shells being taken
forward by pack mules. A crater, mud and wreck of battle in foreground, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11763)
Battle of Ypres. Men of the 29th Division and shell carrying mules going forward along the remains of the Menin Road at Gheluvelt
passing a crater, 29 September 1918. Limbers unable to proceed further owing to state of road repairs to which are seen going on in
the background.

 

© IWM (Q 11798)
French cavalrymen examining a pill box, trench mortar and its shells, gas alarm horn and other trophies taken by the British 29th
Division at Gheluvelt, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11799)
French cavalrymen resting at Gheluvelt, further than which they were unable to get forward owing to muddy state of country. Note two
Royal Engineers of the 29th Division in the foreground and a captured pill box in the background.

 

© IWM (Q 11800)
Fifth Battle of Ypres. Troops of the 36th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps passing French armoured cars drawn up by the side of the Menin
Road. Hooge, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11801)
Fifth Battle of Ypres. Men of the 36th Divisional Cyclist Company and a pack ammunition section heading towards Gheluvelt pass French
transport limbers on the Menin Road, 29 September 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11802)
Fifth Battle of Ypres. Motor Machine Gun battalion and pack animals carrying shells of the British 36th Division passing French
transport and a French cavalry bivouac on the Menin Road near Gheluvelt, 29 September 1918. A light railway train is also going
forward with a load of duckboards

 

© IWM (Q 78179)
Entrance on the west front of the ruined church at Troissy, 29 September 1918.