Malcolm Mercer (17 September 1859-3 June 1916) was a Canadian major-general who commanded the 3rd Canadian Division during World War I.
Biography[]
Malcolm Mercer was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada in 1859, and he practiced law in Toronto before joining the militia in 1881 and serving in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. He became a lieutenant-colonel in 1911, and he helped to assemble a Canadian Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I due to his flair for training and organizing. He frequently visited the front lines of the Western Front, even in the face of poison gas attacks and heavy shellfire, and he was killed by a shrapnel shell during the Battle of Mont Sorrel on the Ypres salient in 1916.