Records Of The Men Of Lochbroom | 026 KENNETH M'DONALD

26 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

1915

10/1891. PTE KENNETH M'DONALD,

5th Wellington Infantry Bn., N.Z.E.F.

Aged unknown

A Shepherd in New Zealand

Youngest son of Mr. Duncan M'Donald, Shepherd, Dundonnell.

Enlisted in the N.Z.E.F.	Jan. 1915.
Proceeded to Gallipoli	-
Killed in action and buried at the Cemetery at Chailak Dere, near the Apex Anzac	11th Nov. 1915.

His Colonel wrote:- “I hope you will be cheered in the knowledge that he died bravely doing his duty for the Empire."

Apex Anzac, Gallipoli -

“We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, bit it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Abraham Lincoln. From an Address at the Dedication of a Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863.

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

Cemetery / Memorial: Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Turkey.

Grave: I. A. 15.

Location and Map (CWGC)

Local Memorial: Dundonnell

additional information

The official records put his date of death as being on the 12th of November 1915, not the 11th as stated above.

The official records also state: Of Dundonnell, Ullapool. Son of Duncan and Katherine Ross MacDonald, of 19, King St., Inverness, Scotland.

Family information

The connection with the Parish today is not known.