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Son of Mrs. Mary McKenzie, of Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private William McKenzie
Digital gallery of
Private William McKenzie
Memorial plague his mother hung in her room until her death.
Digital gallery of
Private William McKenzie
Postcard photo takend by the Elite Photo Co., 112 Sauchiewall Street, Glasgow. William visited family in Glasgow. It is most likely he is posing with his brother-in-law David Young. The back of the photo is labelled `John`. One concludes that Bill sent this to his brother John in Canada as it was found in his postcard collection.
Digital gallery of
Private William McKenzie
William bought a piece of land located near Athabasca Landing, Alberta. He built this log house on his land and put this photograph on a postcard which he sent to his family. On the back of this card it says, `This is a photo of W.A. shack, it does not come out as well as we would have liked, but we will send you a good one pretty shortly. Notice how I spend Sunday. William`
Digital gallery of
Private William McKenzie
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William McKenzie
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Memorial plague his mother hung in her room until her death.
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Postcard photo takend by the Elite Photo Co., 112 Sauchiewall Street, Glasgow. William visited family in Glasgow. It is most likely he is posing with his brother-in-law David Young. The back of the photo is labelled `John`. One concludes that Bill sent this to his brother John in Canada as it was found in his postcard collection.
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William bought a piece of land located near Athabasca Landing, Alberta. He built this log house on his land and put this photograph on a postcard which he sent to his family. On the back of this card it says, `This is a photo of W.A. shack, it does not come out as well as we would have liked, but we will send you a good one pretty shortly. Notice how I spend Sunday. William`
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 285 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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