Geburtsdatum: 10/06/1887

Geburtsort: Dumfriesshire, Vereinigtes Königreich, Schottland

Beruf: Stallknecht

Land: Canada

Truppe: Canadian Expeditionary Force

Rang: Private

Dienstnummer: 808784

Einberufung datum: 23/02/1916

Einberufung ort: High River, Alberta, Canada

Einheiten:  —  Canadian Infantry, 50th Bn. (Calgary)  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Sterbedatum: 26/10/1917

Sterbeort: Deck Wood - Ehards Grund, Passchendaele, Belgien

Todesursache: Im Kampf gefallen

Alter: 30

Private Joseph Johnstone was part of the 50th Battalion Canadian Infantry, 10th Canadian Brigade, 4th Canadian Division. On 26 October he took part in the Second Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres – Battle of Passchendaele). The 10th Canadian Brigade attacked with the 46th Battalion Canadian Infantry north of the Ypres Roulers Railway and the 50th Battalion Canadian Infantry in close support. The jumping off line was situated in the line Heine House, Hillside Farm and Ypres Roulers Railway. They consolidated most of their objective under heave enemy shelling. The 46th and 50th battalion was eventually driven back due to German counter attacks and established a new frontline closer to their jumping off line. Joseph Johnstone was presumably killed in the area between Haalen Copse and Heine House near Deck Wood, where his body was found at D.11d.25.90. He was re-interred at Buttes New British Cemetery where he has his final resting place.

Circumstances of death http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=28&q3=2308&sqn=682&tt=703&PHPSESSID=pf868q7td101us1usidkvu8pl1 Verwendete Quellen

McCarthy C., Passchendaele, The Third Ypres, the Day-by-Day account, (London, Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018), pp. 126-128. Verwendete Quellen

Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa (LAC) RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4887 - 34). https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/search.aspx Verwendete Quellen

War diaries: 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa (LAC), RG9-III-D-3, Volume number: 4939, Microfilm reel number: T-10745--T-10746, File number: 437. https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng Verwendete Quellen

War diaries: 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa (LAC), RG9-III-D-3, Volume number: 4941, Microfilm reel number: T-10747--T-10748, File number: 441). Verwendete Quellen

Wheeler V.W., The 50th Battalion in No Man's Land (50th Canadian Infantry Battalion ( Alberta Regiment ) Canadian Expeditionary Force 1915-1919, (CEF Books, Ottawa, 2000), pp. 166-168. Verwendete Quellen

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/480310

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=eb637702-a78a-4b23-9f24-29d1261d411d

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5812613

The Canadian Virtual War Memorial https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/480310