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Pte. John Robert McDougall
Canadian Army 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company
from:Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
John McDougall was born on 2 April 1883 at Westville, Nova Scotia, son of Roderick and Katherine McDougall. The family moved to New Aberdeen, where Roderick, John and a brother were coal miners. John was working in a mine at Glace Bay when he enlisted in the 246th Battalion at Aldershot on 29th of August 1916. Upon arrival in England in June 1917, he was transferred into the 185th Battalion. When it was also broken up he was transferred into the 17th Reserve Battalion, then into No 3 Tunnelling Company on 25th of April 1918. He then went to France and served until being hospitalized at Boulogne with a hernia on 6 October 1918. He was sent back to England and returned home in March 1919.

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