Angus Mackenzie, 8 Laxay


Private ANGUS MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 8 Laxay,
Son of John and Christina Mackenzie
Service unit: 1st Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3/5516
Enlisted at Inverness
Date of birth: 15 June 1894
Date of death: 14 October 1915 at the age of 21
Died of wounds sustained at Loos 10 days earlier.
Interred: Choques Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, grave I. G. 38.
Local memorial: Kinloch, Laxay
Had been in hospital in winter of 1914 suffering from frostbite

Angus was one of the children of John (1853) and Christina (1856), the others being  Dolina (1886), John Duncan (1898), Margaret (1888), Mary (1893) and an unnamed infant who only lived for 8 days in 1891.

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