William Neil McKinnon

Rank:

Lance Corporal

Regimental number:

452479

Unit at enlistment:

58th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Prospect Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Commemorated at:

Wellington Street Methodist Church, Matthews-Blackwell Co. Roll of Honour

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Paris, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

9 Brighton Row, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

9 Brighton Row, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Butcher

Employer:

Matthews-Blackwell Co.

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX November 21, 1916

Today’s casualty list gives the name of another Brantford hero, Lance Corporal William Neil McKinnon, 9 Brighton Road, as having been wounded.

BX October 9, 1917

Returned Soldiers

The following men were expected to leave Halifax on Monday, October 8 and may reach Toronto on Wednesday, October 10: Sergeant Percy Unsworth, Cpl. William Neil McKinnon, Privates Albert Leopold Aldred, Herbert Roscoe Fisher, Oscar Burton Fennell, Earl Hutchinson, Stanley Shoebottom.

Toronto Star May 19, 1943

William Neil McKinnon

McKINNON, Lance-Corporal – At Christie Street hospital, Tuesday, May 18th, 1943. Lance-Corporal William McKinnon, Regimental Number 452479 (58th Battalion), beloved husband of Mary McKinnon, 1470 St. Clair Avenue, West. Resting at the Jerrett funeral chapel, 1141 St. Clair Avenue West (near Dufferin). Service Friday, 3.30 o’clock Interment Veterans’ Plot, Prospect Cemetery.