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Personal data

• Name MACKAY
• Initials JI
• First name JAMES IVAN
• Place of birth Johannesburg
• Country South Africa
• Family Son of James H. Mackay, of "Colinton," St. Andrew's Rd., Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Education St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, Cape Colony
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School, Brooklands, 3 April 1916

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 70th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career came to England at the end of 1916, and obtained a commission in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. He was afterwards attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He soon received his captaincy and left for the front about three weeks before his death;
  also served in the West Riding Regiment

Death

• Wounded KIFA (Killed in flying accident); B2397 Sopwith Camel, during offensive patrol, a collision in the air (with French) at 3.15 p.m., east of Ypres; crashed in the water, wrecked.
• Date of death 5 October 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - I - 10

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