A 1914 Trio to Lieutenant M.K.Mackenzie, 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps attached 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, Fell Leading His Platoon in a Night Attack at the Battle of the Aisne, extremely fine, with Next of Kin bronze plaque and photograph (4)

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A 1914 Trio to Lieutenant M.K.Mackenzie, 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps attached 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, Fell Leading His Platoon in a Night Attack at the Battle of the Aisne, extremely fine, with Next of Kin bronze plaque and photograph (4)

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INDENTLieutenant Mark Kincaid MacKenzie, son of the Hon. Lord Mackenzie of Edinburgh, educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, was gazetted to the 4th Bn. K.R.R.C., 1911 and on the outbreak of the Great War, when on leave from India, was despatched to the Front with the 3rd Bn. Rifle Brigade. He was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, 25 September 1914 while leading his platoon in a night attack on the German position near Soupir, N.E. of Soissons - he fell wounded but got up and continued to cheer his men until he fell again close to the enemy trenches (Wykehamists Who Died in the Great War, Vol II). Lieutenant Mackenzie is buried in Montcornet Military Cemetery, France.

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