B64594 Rifleman Duncan McInnes was born on 21 July 1919 in Osprey, Ontario, the son of Hector McInnes and Mabel Moore. He was educated in McIntyre and was a member of the United Church of Canada.

He had four sisters and four brothers, one of whom served in the Royal Canadian Army during the war.

He was working as a labourer in Toronto when he enlisted in Kitchener, Ontario with The Queen’s Own Rifles on 6 June 1941. He did basic training in Kitchener and Camp Borden before joining the regiment on 11 July 1941 at Camp Sussex in New Brunswick and arriving in Scotland with them later that month.

Rifleman McInnes was severely wounded after landing with Charlie Company on Juno Beach, D-Day, 6 June 1944 and died of those wounds on the 7^th, aged 23.

He is buried in Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference V. B. 1. He is also remembered on a family monument in the McIntyre Pioneer Cemetery in Grey County, Ontario.

As the beneficiary of his estate, his mother received his war service gratuity of $643.37 – worth about $10,710 in 2023 plus $298.60 in outstanding pay.