100545 Private Oscar J. Ronnie
"C" Company, 49th Battalion (E.R.)
American born Oscar John Ronnie applied for a homestead in early 1915. Several months later, he decided to enlist into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Arriving in Flanders with the 49th Battalion (E.R.) in June 1916, he received a shrapnel wound to the neck on the Somme that October. Invalided to England for treatment, he returned to the 49th Battalion (E.R.) in France in November 1917. During the latter stages of the 1918 Hundred Days offensive, Ronnie was killed suddenly by German machine gun fire near Bourlon, France, as the 49th Battalion (E.R.) approached the Marcoing Line. He is buried in Crest Cemetery, France.