[Troublous Times in Canada by John A. Macdonald]@TWC D-Link bookTroublous Times in Canada CHAPTER VI 53/65
After the service at the Cemetery had been concluded, the usual volleys were fired over the remains by the Lloydtown Rifles, and all that was mortal of those five heroes who had sacrificed their lives on the field of battle for their country were laid away to eternal rest. The body of Malcolm McKenzie was sent to his old home at Woodstock for burial, and that of Private J.H.Mewburn to Stamford.
Both of these dead soldiers were buried the same day, with full military honors, and were laid to rest with the deepest reverence by their comrades and the people of the communities in which they had lived and been honored. On the 9th of June Sergt.
Hugh Matheson, of No.
2 Company, Queen's Own Rifles, died in the hospital at St.Catharines, from wounds received at Ridgeway, and on the 11th Corporal F.Lackey, of the same company, died in Toronto, from the effects of a cruel wound in the upper jaw, received in the same battle.
The remains of these two soldiers were also given a public funeral, as large and imposing as had been accorded to their dead comrades a week previously.
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