Date de naissance: 10/06/1887

Lieu de naissance: Dumfriesshire, Écosse, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Garçon stable

Pays: Canada

Force armée: Canadian Expeditionary Force

Rang: Private

Numéro de service: 808784

Incorporation date: 23/02/1916

Incorporation nom de lieu: High River, Alberta, Canada

Unités:  —  Canadian Infantry, 50th Bn. (Calgary)  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 26/10/1917

Lieu de décès: Deck Wood - Ehards Grund, Passchendaele, Belgique

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 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 Sources utilisées

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

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 Sources utilisées

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 Sources utilisées

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). Sources utilisées

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. Sources utilisées

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