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Sgt. William Mack DCM
British Army 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.30th May 1917)
Sergeant William Mack (birth name W. Kurtzman, but served as William Mack) DCM, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, was the son of Barnett Maurice Kurtzman, a shoemaker, and Esther Sanders Kurtzman, of Ashley Buildings, High Street, Edinburgh, then 71 Rose Street, Glasgow, and later 24 Waverley Buildings, Edinburgh. He married Catherine Goldberg, daughter of Lazarus Goldberg, jewellery traveller, and Rachel Woolfe, on 22 March 1915 at Edinburgh. He enlisted at Edinburgh. He died of wounds on 30th May 1917 and is buried in St. Pol Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.