Alfred Mackie
Rank: Private
Service No: 42270
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 09/08/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: King’s Own Scottish Borderers (1st/4th Bn.)
Cemetery: Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt
Additional information: Son of James and Annie McEwen Mackie of 15 Woodside Avenue, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mackie of 15 Woodside Avenue, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father James Mackie.
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour information: s. of James Mackie of 15 Woodside Ave, Rutherglen, by his wife, Annie, dau. of James McEwan; b. Glasgow in 1899; was a clerk to a firm of Surveyors and Valuators; joined the 2/1st Lanarkshire Yeomanry 2 March 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 April 1918; transferred there to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers and died at No. 33 Casualty Clearing Station 9 Aug. following, from wounds received in action at Vimy Ridge on the 6th.
1901 census information:
Address: 107 Summerfield Street, Bridgeton.
Father: James (40) power loom tenter, born about 1861 in Blantyre.
Mother: Annie (37) born about 1864 in Kilmarnock.
Brother: Thomas (12) born about 1889 in Hamilton.
Brother: James (11) born about 1890 in Hamilton.
Sister: Francis (8) born about 1893 in Hamilton.
Sister: Janet (6) born about 1895 in Hamilton.
Brother: Frederick (4) born about 1897 in Hamilton.
Self: Alfred (2) born about 1899 in Glasgow.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Glasgow. The family comprises James 50, Annie McEwan 47, Thomas 22, James 21, Frances 18, Janet 16, Frederick 14, Alfred 12, Harold 9, Alexander 6, and George 3
Also commemorated on the memorial at the 113th Scout Hall, Rutherglen.