Private Malcolm Angus McInnis

1. Private, 185th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
2. Private, Royal Canadian Regiment (Army).

brother of Reverend Angus John McInnis

Malcolm Angus MacInnis enlisted in 1916 with prior experience in the Canadian militia. He sailed out of Halifax with the 185th Battalion on the SS Olympic in October of 1916 and was acting Lance Corporal for a time in England at Whitley Park. Unfortunately, Malcolm was killed in the last 100 days of the Great War. In September of 1918, Canadian forces united to take back Cambrai from the Germans.

'The battle towards Cambrai dealt a mortal blow to a weakened, but resistant, enemy in the course of the last 100 days of the Great War. The operation began on September 27, 1918, with a hair-raising rush across a dangerously narrow canal passage. It continued with harrowing counterattacks coming from enemy troops concealed in woods, firing from bridgeheads, and lurking around the corners of myriad small village roads. It ended in triumph on October 11, when the Canadians, exhausted after days of unremitting fighting, finally drove the Germans out of their most important remaining distribution centre, Cambrai.

Pt. Malcolm MacInnis was killed on the second day of that battle as the Canadians captured Raillencourt Village. He is buried in the cemetery there.