Profile

MACKAY, Roderick
(Service number 58576)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	15 April 1897	Place of Birth	Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	5 October 1917	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	Godley Peaks, Tekapo
Occupation	Shepherd for A Macrae
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Miss Macrae (Aunt), care of Empire Hotel, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Europe 1917-18
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	4 May 1918	Age	21
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Serre Road Cemetery, No 1, Pas-de-Calais, France
Memorial Reference	IV. G. 13
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of Finlay and Isabella Mackay of Kirkton, Balmacara, Kyle, Rosshire, Scotland

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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