2322 Pte Robert Mackie

Born: Aberdeen 3^rd April 1895 - Died: Edgware (NW London) 21^st June 1967

Back row (L>R): McKay, Bremner, Johnston, Jamieson,

Front row: Mackie, Morgan Crawford, Forsyth

2322 Pte Robert Mackie

Enlisted in the 1/4th Bn October 1914

Stationed at Bedford and went to France with the Battalion on 15th February 1915.

Participated in action at Bellewaarde and in Ypres sector 1915.

Wounded in action at "High Wood" on 22/23rd July 1916.

Hospitalised in Rouen(France) and at Netley Hospital, Southampton

Invalided out of the army 30th March 1917.

Son of:

Charles (d.1936) & Ann Mackie (nee Willox) (d. 1954)

Husband of: Marian (nee Debnam, d. 1986) Father of: John Mackie

Brother of:

Alec Mackie; Charles (‘Chat’) Willox Mackie (d.1943)

Alice Christina Foyle (d. 1947); James (‘Jim’) Mackie (d. 1951)

Ann Thompson Mackie (d. 1978)

Uncle of: Carlos Mackie

The Family Grave is in St Peter’s Cemetery, King Street, Aberdeen

A shrub in the Gordon Highlander’s Museum Garden is dedicated to him,

and his name was entered in the Memorial Book in November 2002.