William Robert MUCKLE

1897 - 1916  (19 years)

• Name	William Robert MUCKLE
  Birth	1 May 1897	Bally, Donaghdee, Down, Ireland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  British Home Child	5 Aug 1910	Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  	sailed from Liverpool, ENG
  Attestation Papers	19 Nov 1915	Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
  WWI service	Private, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), 87th Battalion
  Death	21 Oct 1916	Courcelette, Picardie, France
  Burial	Vimy Ridge, Pas de Calais, France   [3, 4]
  	Address: Vimy Memorial Vimy, Pas de Calais France
  Person ID	I49218537	Whitewater Region Early Families
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2022

  
  

  Mother	Margaret STRAIN,   b. 23 Oct 1871, Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland d. 1898, Ballyhay, Ballycross, Down, Ireland (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F16232859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Pembroke War Memorial from the back photographed by Fay Bennett, Nov 2022
  		WHx-Roll of Honor, Perreton United Church photographed by Fay Bennett
  		Beachburg War Memorial, Beachburg, Ontario Photographed by Fay Bennett
  		Westmeath War Memorial, Westmeath, Ontario (on the back) Photographed by Fay Bennett

  
  

  Documents		Muckle, Pte. William Robert “Photographic Record and Souvenir of the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion Eighty Seventh”, Col. F. S. Meighen O.C., 1916, p. 22
  		Muckle, Pte. William Robert Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate CWGC. “Private William Robert Muckle, War Casualty Details 1572190, CWGC. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1572190/william-robert-muckle/ Accessed Nov 26, 2022.

  
  

  Histories

  Muckle, Pte. William Robert Military Summary Compiled by Fay Bennett from sources listed; updated Oct 2023

  
  

• Notes

  WWI service: Private William Robert Muckle (No. 177739) left England for France on 10 August 1916 from Bramshott Military Camp in Hampshire and was killed in action some two months later, on 21 October 1916. Private Muckle has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial in France; on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM); in the Canadian First World War Book of Remembrance (Page 139) and on the Pembroke War Memorial in Ontario, Canada. Attestation Papers: He enlisted on Nov 19, 1915 at Pembroke, Ontario at the age of 18 years, 7 months. He was described as 5' 7" tall with a dark complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hair. Occupation was a fireman. He listed his next of kin as James McWhau, brother.

  
  

• Sources

  [S604884] Ancestry.com, Mil-Military Attestation Papers, (Ancestry.com. Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Images are used with the permission of Library and Archives Canada.). [S605303] Canada., Mil-WWI Personnel Records of the First World War, ( Library and Archives Canada . https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/search.aspx.). [S605304] Veterans Affairs Canada, Mil-Canadian Virtual War Memorial, ((www.veterans.gc.ca/eng)), ). (Reliability: 3). [S604967] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Mil-Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ((www.cwgc.org)), ). (Reliability: 3).