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Cpl. John Gilmor Magee
British Army 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Cookstown, N. Ireland.
(d.22nd March 1918)
John Magee was a son of Alexander & Sarah Ann Magee of Toberlane, Cookstown. He was employed with his father at Wellbrook Beetling Mill until early 1916 and was a prominent member of The Ulster Volunteers and The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland at Orritor. He then went to work in The Caledonian Railway in Glasgow and also joined The Cameronians, (Scottish Rifles) Regiment and was later transferred to The Highland Light Infantry.
He was sent to France in June 1916 and fought in Cambrai and Arras. During his secondment he returned home on leave twice. On his final day which was either on the 22nd or 27th day of May 1918, (there are conflicting records as to the exact date), he had been on duty in the front line at Arras, France and had just finished his shift when an enemy aeroplane came over the trench firing its machine gun and he was killed instantly.
