Casualy Details

There are two Sergeants, John MacPherson, on the UKNIWM database and as yet I have been unable to find out which is the one on Cawdor War Memorial.

Name: MACPHERSON, JOHN

Initials: J

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Unit Text: 17th Bn.

Date of Death: 08/05/1917

Service No: 746

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: P. II. L. 12A.

Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

 

Name: MacPHERSON, JOHN McASKILL

Initials: J M

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Unit Text: 51st Bn.

Age: 30

Date of Death: 13/07/1917

Service No: 2710

Additional information: Son of Murdoch and Christina MacPherson. Native of Glendale, Scotland.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 7.

Cemetery: MUD CORNER CEMETERY

 

Mud Corner was the name given to a road junction on the northern edge of Ploegsteert Wood, very close to the front. The cemetery was used from 7 June 1917, when the New Zealand Division captured Messines, to December 1917. All of the burials, save one, are of New Zealand or Australian forces. The cemetery contains 85 First World War burials. The cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith.