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Trooper JOHN MACKAY

Service Number: 1500895
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps

53rd Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 June 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW KILPATRICK (OR HILLFOOT) CEMETERY

Sec. L. Grave 290.

United Kingdom

Headstone

Photographer: Jim Smith

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David and Hughina Mackay, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription WE ARE JUST A SUNSET NEARER EACH TIME THE DAYLIGHT FADES
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN

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Buried or commemorated at

NEW KILPATRICK (OR HILLFOOT) CEMETERY
Dunbartonshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 72
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