Private JOHN MACKENZIE senior
Last address in Lewis: 5 Upper Garrabost,
Son of Evander and Mary Mackenzie, of 5, Garrabost, Stornoway.
Service unit: 2nd Gordon Highlanders
Service number: 3/5800
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 13 February 1916 at the age of 19
Killed in action
Interred: Norfolk Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, grave I. A. 35
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
John is shown in the 1901 census aged 2, at 5 Garrabost with his parents Evander and Mary (both aged 40) as well as his siblings Chirstina (15), Roderick (13), Mary (11), Kenneth (9), John (6), and Evander (4).
His brother Evander was killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in 1916.
His brothers John and Roderick served in the RNR, but survived the war.
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