He was also received the American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. He is honored with a bronze plaque on the lectern at the George Robert White Fund Memorial at the Veterans Memorial Park in the Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts. Post-World War II After the war MacGillivary returned home to Boston where for a short time he worked as a special agent for Boston's Treasury Department. He joined the United States Customs Service in 1950 starting as a warehouse officer, but soon became an agent for the United States Customs Office of Investigations, conducting special investigations. His daughter Charlene Corea remembered him as being particularly busy in the winter inspecting Christmas trees that entered the United States from Canada. He retired from the Customs Service in 1975. Sergeant Charles A. MacGillivary was enrolled as a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts the third oldest chartered military organization in the world on April 6, 1992. He was the seventh member of the company to receive the Medal of Honor. MacGillivary served as president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society from 1973-1975. While president, he led a project to locate other immigrant recipients of the Medal of Honor. He and his wife, Esther, had three daughters. She died in 1999. MacGillivary was a resident of Braintree, Massachusetts from 1957 until his death at age 83 on June 24, 2000, in the VA Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts. Rev. Philip Salois, who had himself received a Silver Star in the Vietnam War, officiated at the funeral. Then Governor of Massachusetts Paul Cellucci was in attendance at MacGillivary's funeral. MacGillivary and his wife Esther (1921–1999) are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. See also List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II References Specific External links 1917 births 2000 deaths Canadian emigrants to the United States United States Army personnel of World War II People from Boston Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States) United States Army Medal of Honor recipients People from Charlottetown United States Army soldiers Canadian people of Scottish descent American sailors Canadian sailors Canadian-born Medal of Honor recipients Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) Recipients of the Soldier's Medal World War II recipients of the Medal of Honor United States Customs