MACKAY, William
| Service Number: | 706 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sutherland, Scotland, 1873 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Builder |
| Died: | Cairns District Hospital, Cairns, Qld., 9 May 1925, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland MWS Row Q Site 1288 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 706, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 706, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 706, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
His many friends will hear with profound regret of the death at Cairns on Saturday morning last of Mr. William Mackay, who, for a a couple of years during the war, was recruiting officer in Charters Towers. A member of the famous 15th Battalion, the deceased was in the hottest of the Gallipoli fighting, and he was fearfully smashed about. Invalided home, he pulled through, by the force of sheer pluck and determination, to a passable kind of patched up recovery, and, the moment he was physically able, his services were again at the disposal of his King and country. He was allotted to the recruiting staff, and in that capacity he again rendered invaluable assistance. A soldier and a man in the most literal sense of the phrase, was sergeant 'Bill' Mackay, and for his bereaved wife, who was formerly Miss Lil Green of Charters Towers, and for her two young sons, the greatest sympathy will be felt.
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