WRAY, Kenneth Mackenzie
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | County Donegal, Ireland, 1854 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Sydney, NSW, 5 October 1927, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
South Head General Cemetery, Vaucluse, New South Wales Anglican Portion |
| Memorials: | Goulburn Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Captain, New South Wales Imperial Bushmen |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Captain K M Wray DSO, 1 Australian Horse. Born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1854, Kenneth Mackenzie Wray married Grace Edwards in Sydney in 1881. Wray was living at Goulburn, NSW and was serving with the NSW Mounted Rifles at the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. Serving with C Company of the NSW Bushmen, he embarked aboard the transport Armenian at Sydney on 23 April 1900. Captain Wray returned to Australia in July 1901 aboard the transport Orient. He was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in September 1901. Wray's son, Lieutenant Charles Douglas Waller Wray, 5 Machine Gun Battalion, AIF and daughter Sister Cecil Dallas Wray AANS, saw service during the First World War. His grandsons, Major Charles Henry Waller Wray, 2/6th Cavalry Regiment and Sergeant George Edwin Cecil Wray, 234 Anti-Aircraft Battery, AIF and granddaughter Flight Officer Nina Beatrice Wray, 4th Personnel Training Depot, WAAF served during the Second World War. Kenneth Mackenzie Wray died in Sydney on 5 October 1927.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
BOER WAR VETERAN
LATE CAPT. WRAY, D.S.O.
The funeral of tho lato Captain Kenneth Mackenzie Wray. D.S.O., whose death occurred on Thursday, took place at the Anglican portion of South Head Cemetery this morning. Dr. d'Arcy Irvine officiated. Captain Wray, who was born In Ireland and came to New South Wales 50 years ago at the age of 22, went to the late Edward King Cox's station at Rylstone, and afterwards purchased a large pastoral holding in the Monnro, which he held for some years. At the outbreak of the South African war he gained a commission with the 6th imperial Bushmen, and during the war won a D.S.O. and bar.
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