PRIVATE MAGDAL HERMANSON
CANADIAN INFANTRY
3RD MAY 1915 AGE 19
BURIED: WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE
Magdal Hermanson was born in Iceland, from where his parents emigrated to Canada in 1904 when he was 13. In 1914 he was working as a printer, probably in Valcartier, Quebec where he enlisted. By February 1915 he was in France and then on 23 April he was reported to be dangerously ill with a gunshot wound in the head. He died in hospital on 3 May.
Private Hermanson's inscription is interesting on two counts, that his parents referenced the fact that he was Icelandic and that he died for Canada not England, Britain or the Empire.