Stationary Hospital, _s._ of Bernard McGee, of Greymouth, New
Zealand, Goldminer (a native of co. Donegal, who died 5 July, 1916);
_b._ Westland, New Zealand, 6 July, 1879; educ. Convent of Mercy,
Greymouth, New Zealand; and was a Merchant Sailor; joined the New
Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20 May, 1915; and was drowned on the
transport Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Ægean Sea, 23
Oct. 1915; _unm._ Three of his brothers, _viz_.: Timothy,
Lawrence and Daniel, are on active service with the New Zealand Rifle
Brigade.
=McGINTY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 16982, 13th (Service) Battn.
Royal Scots, _s._ of William McGinty, of Addiewell, Midlothian,
Candlemaker; _b._ Blackburn, West Lothian, Aug. 1870; educ.
Addiewell; was a Coal Miner; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915;
went to France, July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 70,
during the Battle of Loos, 26 Sep. 1915. He _m._ at West Calder,
Midlothian, 26 Feb. 1908, Martha (23, Westwood Rows, West Calder),
dau. of Alexander Watson, and had four children: William and Alexander
(twins), _b._ 1 March, 1913; Elizabeth, _b._ 24 Dec. 1911;
and Margaret Calder, _b._ 20 May, 1915.
=McGLASHAN, JOHN EWING=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Walter Charles Stuart
McGlashan, of Moidart, Gourock, and the firm of Messrs. McGlashan,
Sons and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes Templeton, dau. of
the late David James; _b._ Shawlands, Glasgow, 16 March, 1884;
educ. Greenock Academy, and afterwards entered his father’s business.
He joined the Volunteers, 1900, and became 2nd Lieut. 1904, and having
passed the school of instruction for regular service as Lieut. in the
Renfrew Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 26 Aug. 1914,
was gazetted as Lieut. to 1/5th Argylls. He left with his Battn. for
the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Krithia, 12 July, 1915;
_unm._
=MACGREGOR, CORTLANDT RICHARD=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South
Wales Borderers, elder _s._ of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of
Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest
dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan,
J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; _b._ Orange County, Florida, U.S.A., 7
Feb. 1894; educ. abroad and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
(1912–1913); gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. South Wales
Borderers, 5 Feb. 1913, and joined at Chatham; but, having applied for
foreign service, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and sailed with it
for China in Sept. 1913. He took part in the siege of Tsing-tau, and
was promoted Lieut., 17 Sept. 1914. Returning to England in Jan. 1915,
he left for the Mediterranean in March, took part in the landing at
the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2
May, 1915; _unm._ His only brother, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Cortlandt
MacGregor, of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, had fallen
in action near Ypres on 26 Feb. preceding (see following notice).
=MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, yr. _s._ of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of
Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest
dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan.
J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; _b._ Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing
College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland
the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5
Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried
at Verbranden Molen.
=McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG=, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots
Fusiliers, _s._ of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith;
_b._ Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted
4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s
medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force
in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the
previous day at Kemmel.
=McGUFFICK, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S.
106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McGUILEY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S.
105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=McGUINNESS, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD=, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn.
(1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only
_s._ of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex)
Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of
the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; _b._ Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869;
educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law
and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at
Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg
& Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and
rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal
for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with
the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s
medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape
Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at
the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War,
Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came
over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the
Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on
Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge,
with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled
by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg,
Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the
Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact
location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they
moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere--a distance
of about 300 yards--in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but
when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and
they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a
burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins.
Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole
near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When
Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in
search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer,
7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the
shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch
and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark,
when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following
day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there
in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was
mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant
and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well
known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada
after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto
and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and
had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International
Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain,
Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in
the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot
for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as
an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at
Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant
of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in
both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied
for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the
famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each
scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600
yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the
Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the
Governor-General’s prize for the second time--the Blue Riband--at
the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range
Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches,
Camp Perry, Ohio. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =W. F. R. Hart-McHarg.=]
=MACHIN, CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie
(3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker;
_b._ Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall;
enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in
France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate
fighting on the Aisne. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Charles Machin.=]
=McHUGH, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM=, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron
Highlanders, yst. _s._ of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior
Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau.
of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; _b._ The West
Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy
and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war
broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and
joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915,
and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April,
1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway;
_unm._
=MACK, FRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MACK, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MACK, WILLIAM BELL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084).
S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS=, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army,
elder _s._ of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan,
Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and
subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk,
by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton
Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; _b._ Bognor, co.
Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton
College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached,
Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with
the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the
34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the
Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu
and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from
the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army
Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a
special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908,
for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in
1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised
Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st
Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and
other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9
Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his
regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell
in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly
defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt.
Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell,
rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was
mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915.
A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the
time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem
an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our
trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw
into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with
his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot
dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt.,
I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier,
and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil
and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain
was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the
main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet
to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in
the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General
on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his
friends in India.
[Illustration: =James Fergus Mackain.=]
=MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON=, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal
Scots (T.F.), _s._ of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon,
Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; _b._
Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and
Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil
Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he
passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health
Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in
the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb.
1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the
transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the
30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; _unm._
[Illustration: =Alastair Sutton Mackay.=]
=MACKAY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MACKAY, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST=, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=MCKEE, JAMES=, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that
ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.
=MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.,
only _s._ of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth
[Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David
Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated
painter; _b._ Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley
Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and
Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age
as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the
school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd
(Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in
which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army
Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24
May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed
part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the
Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander,
Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “He was in the trenches at the time,
defending a position, and was watching a charge of our men on his left
front, and had turned round to tell his men to cease fire, in case they
hit any of their own side, when he was shot in the head, death being
instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is
much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; _unm._
[Illustration: =Colin L. Mackenzie.=]
=MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal
Scots Fusiliers, _s._ of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer
Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London,
by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of
Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late
Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; _b._ Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889;
educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College,
Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and
promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30
Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct.
1914, and was buried there; _unm._ His eldest brother, Lieut. G.
A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and
his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders,
Canadian Expeditionary Force.
[Illustration: =C. G. G. Mackenzie.=]
=MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON=, Lieut., 16th Battn.
(Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._
of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada,
Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix
Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place,
Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates
Mackenzie, of Montreal; _b._ Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley
College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College,
Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being
placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke
out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his
services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being
afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second
contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at
Festubert, 21 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Gordon A. G. Mackenzie.=]
=MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C.=, Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots
Guards, _s._ of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion,
dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer;
_b._ West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889;
educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912;
killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while
acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded
comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded
the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating:
“For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a
severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a
very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled
to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on
that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.”
A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and
another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three
cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we
took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were
any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first,
followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death.
He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A
memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and
parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer
Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.
[Illustration: =James Mackenzie.=]
=MACKENZIE, JAMES=, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by
his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; _b._ Strathpeffer, co.
Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working
for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland
about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the
outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took
part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed
in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; _s.p._ On
hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and
is now (1916) on active service.
=MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE=, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder _s._ of the late
James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife,
Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil
Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; _b._ Shanghai, China, 1 Dec.
1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia,
5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June,
1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the
operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State,
Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal
with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and
Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge,
near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of
the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He _m._ at St. Giles’ Cathedral,
Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of
Craigholme, Edinburgh; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Keith B. MacKenzie.=]
=MACKENZIE, KENNETH=, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=McKENZIE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders, eldest _s._ of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place,
Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond,
Perthshire; _b._ Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge
Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with
his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914,
and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on
the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the
2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien,
which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack
was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a
murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and
Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing
Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the
26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St.
Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie
_m._ at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street,
Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion
Margot Stuart, _b._ 15 Aug. 1912.
[Illustration: =William McKenzie.=]
=MACKEY, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A.
5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.