Frank Angus McKinnon

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
225401
Unit at enlistment: 
Depot Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
November 18th, 1917
Cemetery: 
Menin Gate Memorial - Ypres, Belgium - Panel 18.24.26.30
Commemorated at: 
Wellington Street Methodist Church
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
7 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
86 Marlborough Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Machinist
Employer: 
Goold, Shapley and Muir Co.
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
19

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. While in the front line trenches, Passchendaele he was hit in the head and instantly killed by casing from an enemy shell.

BX December 14, 1917

Frank Angus McKinnon Reported Killed in Action

Private Frank Angus McKinnon was reported killed in action today. Private McKinnon left Brantford with the C.M.R. and after training at Hamilton was sent to England. He had been in France for but two months before being killed. Previous to enlistment he was a shell-maker at the Goold, Shapley and Muir plant. He was 19 years of age at the time of his death. He leaves two sisters, Misses Ethel and Marjorie, and one brother, William, 68 Palace Street.