Joseph MACKIE

MACKIE, Joseph

Service Number: 292
Enlisted: 19 September 1919, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Rothiemay, Scotland, 1891
Home Town: Crookwell, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales
Schooling: Public School, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 3 May 1915
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
No known grave Panel 38, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crookwell War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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World War 1 Service

22 Dec 1914: Involvement Private, 292, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914: Embarked Private, 292, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
19 Sep 1919: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 292, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of William and Agnes Mackie of Kincardineshire, Scotland

Next of kin given as his sister Barbara Mackie of Derwent Street, Crookwell, NSW. Also brother of Alexander Mackie of Victoria, British Columbia  Canada

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal issued to his sister Barbara Mackie

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Rothiemay (Scottish Gaelic: Ràth a' Mhuigh) is a small inland village, built mostly of granite, in the north-east of Scotland and is within the Moray council area bordering neighbouring Aberdeenshire across the river to the south-east. Historically part of Banffshire.

1901 Census 261/ Glenbervie, Inchbrech/. Inchbreck.

Enlisted at Sydney, NSW.

He is one of three Australian soldier casualties of the Great War on the Glenbervie parish church Roll of Honour or the exterior war memorial. The other two are  Private George Milne Greig and also Gunner R. Mackie from Inchbreck-but he is not found on any records.

Glenbervie is located in the north east of Scotland in the Howe o' the Mearns, one mile from the village of Drumlithie and eight miles south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. The river Bervie runs through the village. The rural area is the location of Glenbervie House and estate. The parish was formerly named Overbervie.

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