Chester Blaisdell MacPhail (1897 - 1917)

Born 20 Mar 1897 in Bon Accord, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada

Died 6 Jun 1917 at age 20 in London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Chester MacPhail served in the Canadian Army in World War I
Service started: 16 Nov 1915
Unit(s): 140th Battalion,
Service ended: 9 Apr 1917 (KIA)

Private Chester MacPhail was Wounded in the field in France during World War I.

On 16 Nov 1915, Chester enlisted in the Canadian military as a private in 140th Battalion leaving Halifax on 21 Sep 1916 for Liverpool. He arrived there on 6 Oct 1916. Within a month of arriving in Liverpool, he was shipped to France and was sent off to join his unit on 18 Dec 1916, joining it on 18 Feb 1917. On 10 Apr 1917 he was shot in the arm and the back and was invalided and transferred to the Eastern Ontario Depot at Seaford and shipped to London on the ship Princess Ann. Chester died of his wounds on 6 Jun 1917 at the King George Hospital in London.^[1]

Chester is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, United Kingdom.^[2]

Bon Accord, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada

Sources

1. ↑ Personnel Records of the First World War, database and images, Library and Archives Canada, (http://library-archives.canada.ca : accessed 20 July 2018), entry for Chester Blaisdell MacPhail, item number 134627, RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 7168 - 23, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
2. ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Archives," database and images, (https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/399466/macphail,-chester-blaisdell/: accessed 5 July 2018), Entry for MacPhail, Chester Blaisdell, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.