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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Uig, Stornoway
• Land Ross-Shire, Scotland
• Last residence 33 Valtos
• Family Son of William and Isabella McKay, of 33, Valtos Miavaig, Stornoway, Lewis; two sisters, Chirsty and Jane; one brother, Donald;
• Profession Fisherman

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Inverness
• Service number 1299959
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
• Other data related to military career to France on 7 October 1914

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in legs and abdomen, in n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 37
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIV - C - 8

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