Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhe 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.=] =MACKE |