Ypres-Salient John Livingstone

FORTY-TWO-YEAR- OLD Easdale-born labourer Private John Livingstone, of the 7th Battalion, British Columbia (Vancouver) Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, was shot while on lookout duty on July 24 in trenches west of The Bluff, Ypres, where he is buried at the Chester Farm Cemetery.

His headstone is a cross which also bears the inscription from his father Donald, a slate quarrier: ‘Until the day break and the shadows flee away.’

From The Oban Times published an obituary of John Livingstone on August 26, 1916.