Angus McDonald

Died of Wounds on the 07/12/1917 at the 21st Casualty Clearing Station, Bapaume. Wounds received at the Battle of Cambrai

The 150th Field Company were part of the 36th (Ulster) Division from March 1915. Angus had an anti typhoid inoculation in Antrim in 1915. Between May 1915 and January 1916 Angus was twice charged with drunkenness and with missing roll-call twice. On one occasion he was fined 15 shillings (£64 today). Angus became a reformed man and in December 1916 was appointed a paid Corporal. In August 1917 he had 10 days at home. Angus Died of Wounds at the 21st Casualty Clearing Station at Bapaume. Wounds received at the Cambrai operations, (Battle of Cambrai), 20th November - 30th December 1917 : A British attack, originally conceived as a very large scale raid, that employed new artillery techniques and massed tanks. Initially very successful with large gains of ground being made, but German reserves brought the advance to a halt. Ten days later, a counter-attack regained much of the ground. Ultimately a disappointing and costly outcome, but Cambrai is now seen by historians as the blueprint for the successful "Hundred Days" offensives of 1918. Grave photo kindly donated by Mick McCann at the British War Graves website who supply photos FREE OF CHARGE here. See photos for Angus' Medal Index Card, his Newspaper clipping, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his Service Medal and Award Rolls, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report x 2, his Service Records x 21, Angus' Pension Record, the Royal Engineers Cap Badge, Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery and another photo of Angus' Grave. Angus' grave inscription reads "ONLY SLEEPING".