Gravestone of 29001 Pte William J. McDonald, 16th Battalion, CEF at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver in 1994. He died on 22 December 1943. On rear: "Mountain View 94". 29001 Pte William John McDonald joined the 16th Battalion's E Company in Valcartier on 22 September 1914. His attestation was signed by the Officer Commanding, Captain Cecil Mack Merritt. He was wounded on 22 April 1915 at the Battle of Kitcheners' Wood during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was later repatriated back to Canada on 5 November 1915. Captain Merritt was killed in this battle which after the war, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Supreme Commander, remarked that the "greatest act of the war" had been the assault on Kitcheners' Wood by the 10th and 16th Battalions. CEF service file attached. .