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Pte. Hugh McIver VC, MM & Bar.
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:Glasgow
(d.2nd Sep 1918)
Hugh McIver was killed in action on the 2nd Sep 1918 and is buried in the Vraucourt Copse Cemetery in France. He was the son of Hugh and Mary McIver, of 34, Dunlop St., Newton Hallside, Glasgow. Native of Linwood, Paisley.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 31012, dated 12th Nov., 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when employed as a company runner. In spite of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire he carried messages regardless of his own safety. Single-handed he pursued an enemy scout into a machine gun post and having killed six of the garrison captured twenty prisoners with two machine guns. This gallant action enabled the company to advance unchecked. Later he succeeded at great personal risk in stopping the fire of a British Tank which was directed in error against our own troops at close range. By this very gallant action Pte. McIver undoubtedly saved many lives."
Pte. James McIvor
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Jarrow
(d.16th Mar 1916)
James McIvor served with the 6th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers and was killed in action age 19 on the 16th March 1916. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals and that he was killed in action.
James was born in Jarrow 1897, son of Patrick and Ellen McIvor nee Clifford of 133 Salem Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at 372 High Street, Jarrow with Patrick(42) a general labourer in the shipyard and Ellen(37) his wife of 17 years who had 10 children, 8 of whom survived and are of school age living at home. James 14, John 12, Patrick 10, Peter 8, Thomas 6, Agnes 4, Francis Joseph 2 and Eleanor who is 4 months old.
Pte. Thomas McKain
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Btn. Canterbury Regiment
from:Weraroa, Levin, New Zealand
(d.23rd Jul 1915)
Thomas McKain of the 1st Btn. Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. is buried in Malta. My family moved to Malta and as my father visited during the summer and we made a project to complete. As there are a large number of ANZACs interned here in Malta we wanted to commemorate them through a visual format. I am hoping to upload the powerpoint slide pack as a slide show to youtube soon. Hopefully it will give a virtual experience of the graves of ANZACs here in Malta.
Pte. Norman McKaskie
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment
from:Kilham, Northumberland
(d.12th Apr 1918)
Norman McKaskie volunteered at Wooler, Northumberland. He died of his wounds in France 12th Apr 1918 and is buried La Kreule Cemetery, Hazebrouck. His headstone reads "Dearer to memory than words can tell are thoughts of him we love so well"
L/Cpl. Alexander McKay
British Army 16th (2nd Glasgow) Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Scotland
(d.16th Aug 1916)
Alexander McKay was killed in action and is buried at Cambrin Churchyard Extension. Cambrin is a village about 24 kilometres north of Arras and about 8 kilometres east of Bethune, on the road to La Bassee, France.
Pte. David Mckay
British Army 7th/8th Batt Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Coleraine
Capt. Evans Alexander McKay MC.
Royal Flying Corps 104 Squadron
from:12 Chicora Ave, Toronto, Ontario
According to his Military file from the National Archives, Evans McKay flew on reconnaissance missions and was quite successful. According to the Canadian Annual Review War Series 1917 he was promoted to Flight Commander in 1917. At the end he was shot down and crashed. He survived and was taken as a POW by the Germans. At the conclusion of the war he was released and he returned to England where he officially released from the RCF. He returned home to Toronto, Canada.
Pte George William McKay
British Army 2nd Batallion Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Walworth
(d.16th March 1918)
Pte. Henry Donald McKay
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:East Ham, Essex
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. James McKay
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
(d.1st Jul 1917)
James McKay is named on the Nieuport Memorial
Pte. James McKay
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Coleraine
(d.10th Aug 1917)
Rfmn. Matthew McKay
British Army 12th Btn Royal Irish Rifles
from:Bushmills, Co. Antrim
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Matthew McKay was my mother's uncle. I believe he was born in Dunluce, Co. Antrim and lived on Ballyclough Road, which is where my grandma, who was Matthew's sister also my great grandma and my mother along with 6 other siblings lived. I am so proud of my great uncle Matthew. He gave his life for his country, what more could a brave and courageous 21 year old do. God Bless him. His name is on the memorial at Thiepval in France.
Pte. Peter McKay
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
Peter McKay was wounded in August 1917
Spr. Robert Finlayson McKay
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
from:Lairg, Scotland
(d.2nd Oct 1917)
Pte. Robert McKay
British Army 8th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Duntocher, Dumbartonshire
Robert McKay was wounded in battle around mid October 1917. He subsequently lost his left arm. He survived the Great War.
Pte. Watson McKay
British Army 9th Btn. Black Watch
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Watson McKay was my grandmother's brother. He fought with the 9th Battalion, Black Watch. He arrived in France on the 14th of July 1915 and was killed during the Battle of Loos. He is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Pte. William McKay
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Coleraine
(d.25th February 1915)
William McKay served with the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Below is a poem he had written for his mother when he left.
It's of a youngfellow I'm going to tell,
He hailed from Coleraine, you know him quite well,
He left for old England, sailed far o'er the foam,
And left his old Mother and left his old home.
Mother, dear Mother, I bid youadieu,
Wherever I wander my heart is with you,
Wherever I wander my heart will remain,
With all that I love in the town of Coleraine.
Goodbye my old comrades, goodbye toall,
To all my old comrades from bold Donegal,
I am leaving in pain, farewell again,
To my friends and comrades in the town of Coleraine.
Pte. John McKeag
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. John Sharp McKean
Australian Imperial Force 9th Battalion
from:Brisbane
John McKean was my great-uncle. He enlisted on 22nd of July 1915 and was wounded in action.
Pte. John McKeating
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Workington
(d.1st July 1916)
John McKeating is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery
Pte. Hugh McKechnie
British Army 10th/11th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow, Scotland
Hugh McKechnie enlisted on 9 August 1914 and saw action on the western front with the 10th/11th Battalion. He suffered wounds in action in August 1917 which subsequently lead to his discharge on 4 February 1918. The discharge cause was recorded as "Wounds xvi Army Order IIb(i) d/10/08/1917."
It appears that Hugh migrated to Western Australia in 1923 on board the SS Barrabool, which left London on 15/3/1923. He went to live with his sister who had already moved to WA.
Hugh McKechnie settled in East Perth and ultimately lived at the Sunset Hospital in Dalkeith until his death in 1974. He is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery beside the grave of his sister Minnie.
L/Cpl. John McKechnie
British Army 2nd Battalion, F Company Scots Guards
from:Chapelhall, Glasgow
(d.16th May 1915)
John McKechnie was the elder brother of my grandfather James, sons of Walter and Christina. John was born at Airdrie Hill Farm, New Monkland, Lanarkshire on 6th March 1890. He became a member of the Chapelhall Boys' Brigade, the Chapelhall Cricket Club and the U.F Choir. He was a baker by trade.
In late 1914 John enlisted with the Scots Guards and was sent to Caterham for his basic training. John was killed at Festubert on the morning of 16th May 1915 aged 25 years.
A letter received by his parents following his death stated that John's body was found some time later by some of his pals who placed his body in a marked grave. However, if this was so this grave was later lost as he has now has no known grave and is commemorated in the Le Touret Cemetery.
John was part of the action that led to the story of the 'Immortal Eighty'. The story goes that one of John's comrades faced a Field General Court Marshal on 26th March 1915 at La Gorgue where he was convicted of desertion and was executed on the 9th April at Laventie. It is recorded that John was called to submit evidence at this Court Marshal. The story continues that following this execution members of his company met at a local estaminet (a cafe) and decided to fight to the last man to regain their honour. Just over a month later, at the attack at Festubert, John's company lost two officers and eighty other ranks, one of who was John, fighting to the last man having been cut off. Although the facts of this action are never likely to be proven due to the fog of war and the possibility of some embellishment by recorders after the action, the sacrifice of these men impacted on the course of the battle, breaking up a German counter attack and leading to the surrender of a local strong point known as the Quadrilateral.
John's younger brother James survived the war, met my grandmother Lucy in London on being demobbed, married her and set up a blacksmith's shop in Old Dover Road, Blackheath. James had a photo of his brother in uniform but this was destroyed when a V2 demolished the shop late in World War 2 killing many people in the street but, luckily for me, all my family survived one of whom was my mum Joan, who was 18 at the time.
L/Bdr Samuel McKechnie
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Old Kilpatrick. Dumbarton 3 Millburn Crescent
Samuel McKechnie died in 1937. He died before I was born.
My uncle Sam received a gunshot wound to his nose in WW1, and was receiving treatment for this when he died of Pneumonia following his surgery, in Western Infirmary in Glasgow. He was a much respected man and a Gamekeeper all his short life.
Pte. Edward McKee
British Army 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
(d.10th Oct 1916)
Edward McKee served with the 9th Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment and died on the 10th October 1916. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and on the Thiepval Memorial Pier . His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Edward was born in Hebburn 1891, son of Edward and Janet McKee nee Jardine of Jarrow. He was married to Catherine Garrity (formerly McKee nee McGee) of 31 Shamrock Street, Hebburn. In the 1911 census the family is living at 22 Wilberforce, Jarrow with Edward(60) a copperworks labourer and his wife of 23 years Janet(52). They had 7 children but only 3 survived. Edward(20) a brass core maker in copper tube works, Thomas James Jardine(17)a grocers assistant and Robert Jardine(14) a grocers apprentice.
A/Capt Harry Olphert McKee MID.
British Army 12th Btn Royal Irish Rifles
from:Londonderry
Uncle Harry McKee, as I knew him, was my father's uncle and I knew him all my life until he died in 1966. He would tell us about the Great War but never about the fighting. One of his friends was in charge of some mules and refused to eat steak in Belgium in 1919 as he was not a "cannibal". After the war he had something to do with the A Specials in Londonderry, but I'm not sure exactly what. I have been unable to find anything about his service record as we don't know his Army Number, but I know he was Mentioned in Despatches at least once as he has two oak leaves with his medals, as well as a Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Pte J McKee
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:16, Birkett St., Wallsend-on-Tyne
(d.13th Jul 1917)
McKee, J. Private, 19/120, Killed in action on 13th July 1917.
Buried in Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery Somme, in grave II. F. 11.
Son of Mrs. D. McKee, of 16, Birkett St., Wallsend-on-Tyne.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. James Mckee
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Kilkeel.
My Grandfather James McKee was Private 40652, 10th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Formally 2090 North Irish Horse), he was badly wounded Passchendaele in August 1917, suffering wounds to his neck and waist. On release from hospital he was transferred to The Royal Army Service Corps, Horse transport section.
Rfmn. James Johnston McKee
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Newtownbreda, Belfast
(d.2nd Jul 1916)
My great uncle James Johnston enlisted with East Belfast Battalion. He was killed in action on 2nd of July 1916. His name is on Thiepval Memorial, France. He was the second of six sons. His parents, Archibald and Sarah, lived at Newtownbreda, Belfast.
Pte. John Bernard McKee
British Army 4th Btn. Black Watch
from:Dundee, Scotland
Pte. Patrick McKee MM
British Army 7th/8th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
(d.20th Nov 1917)
The actions which lead to Private Patrick McKee and his Ballymoney comrade Lance Corporal John Laverty being decorated are unrecorded. What is known, is that over a two week period in August 1917, Private McKee and Lance Corporal Laverty acted with such heroism that they were both awarded the Military Medal shortly afterwards. In November that year, McKee and Laverty held off a German attack with a heavy machine gun, while their fellow servicemen withdrew. Both men manned the gun to their deaths. They have no known grave and are commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
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