MACKAY, Lachlan
| Service Number: | 23072 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 106th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery |
| Born: | Tain, Ross-shire, Highlands of Scotland , date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Gassed at Messines, France-Tuberculosis, Queensland,Australia, 23 December 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland Prot. Plot. Sec. D. Grave 291. (GRM/4*), Cairns Cemetery, Cairns, Queensland, Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 23072, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
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| 11 May 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 23072, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, 23072, 106th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery , Medically unfit for further service. | |
| 23 Dec 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 23072, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 23072 awm_unit: 106th Australian (Howitzer) Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1918-12-23 | |
| Date unknown: | Embarked Gunner, 23072, 9th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Gunner, 23072, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 23072, 106th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Lachlan was a Gunner with the Australian Field Artillery-106th Australian (Howitzer) Battery
He was born in Tain, Ross-shire in the Highlands of Scotland to Murdo MacKay [died 8th June 1905] and Helen Wallace MacKay [died 28th February 1901]-They are interred in St Duthus Old Burial Ground in Tain. The inscription on their tomb details the names, dates and places of death of their many sons, including that of Lachlan. Lachlan attested at Bundaberg, Queensland on 9th November 1915 giving his age as 42 and 4 months and stating his next of kin as William MacKay of Tain.
During his war service in France, he was gassed at Messines; he was transferred to Tooting Hospital in South London, England and found to be suffering from a tubercle of the lung. [T.B.] He was returned to Australia on 27th September 1917 and discharged from the army on 26th December 1917 as medically unfit for further service.
He died at Queensland, N.S.W.
He is one of five Australian soldiers of the Great War who are commemorated on the Tain War Memorial.
Tain (Gaelic: Baile Dhubhthaich) is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland.
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