Private ANGUS MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 1 Callanish,
Son of Louis and Christina Mackenzie
Service unit: 1st Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3/3111
Date of death: 22 December 1914 at the age of 38
Killed in action in France
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial, panel 41 and 42
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
Angus appears in the 1891 census at Callanish, aged 15, the son of Louis
(55) and Christina (48) and brother of Alexander (24), Ann (22), Kenneth (10), Louis (6) and Angus Murdo (4).
His brothers Alexander and Kenneth served in the Cameron
Highlanders; his brother Malcolm was in the RNR. Louis served in the Seaforth Highlanders and was killed in action in 1915.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission does not have a record of any Angus or A Mackenzie/MacKenzie/McKenzie having died on 1 November 1914.
ReplyDeleteThe service number of the Angus Mackenzie in this post is 3/3111. He was born in 1876 to Louis Mackenzie & Christina McInnes at 1 Callanish. His siblings were Alistair (Alexander), Donald, Annie, Malcolm, Christine, Louis, Kenneth, Angus Murdo and Katie.in Callanish, He enlisted with the Cameron Highlanders in Inverness (date unknown), disembarked in France on 27 Nov 1914 and was "accepted" as dead on 22 Dec 1914 at the age of 38. At the time of his death he lived in Glasgow with his wife Mary Smith and their 6 children (Margaret, Christine, David, Joanne, Murdo & Ena).
The other Angus McKenzie (service # 3/5516) is recorded elsewhere on this blog. He was the son of John and Christina Mackenzie,8 Laxay, Lochs. He was born 1893/4. The beginning of the confusion arises because he too enlisted in 1914 with the Cameron Highlanders in Inverness. He disembarked on 1 Oct 1914, was hospitalized with frostbite during winter of 1914, then was injured and died of his wounds in Loos on 14 Oct 1915. He is buried (grave # 605) in the Chocques Military Cemetery in France.
Thank you for the confirmation, have amended the records accordingly.
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