Gordon Archibald MacCallum

On the night of December 5, 1944, Private Archie MacCallum was killed by sniper fire while serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in Holland. He was 25. The son of Charles Cameron and Lauretta MacCallum of the Gorge Road area of Moncton, Private MacCallum is buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands. A younger brother, Malcolm, was in Belgium with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signallers at the time of Archie’s death.

MacCallum worked for CN Telegraph and was hesitant to go to war. He was eventually conscripted, however, and once in uniform he volunteered for active service rather than working in a support role. MacCallum landed in France as a reinforcement in the months after D-Day and died by the year’s end.