Lieutenant-Colonel Thain Wendell MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O. 1890-1960

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 13, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Leeds and Grenville
The Township of Augusta
In Maitland, on the NW corner of King Street (County Road 2) and Church Street

Plaque Text

Born at Lachute, Quebec, MacDowell moved to Maitland in 1897. He attended local schools and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915. During World War I, he enlisted, on January 9, 1915, in the 38th Battalion, C.E.F. On April, 9, 1917, during the battle of Vimy Ridge, assisted by two runners, he captured two machine guns, two officers and seventy-five men. With the vision of the enemy obscured by a turn in a passage in their dug-out, he was able to convince them that he commanded a vastly superior force. His action eliminated a serious obstacle to the gaining of his battalion's objective, and he was awarded the British Empire's highest decoration for valour, the Victoria Cross.

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