Name
Donald Paley Mackay
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 42 to 47 and 162.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
St Andrews Church Memorial Cross, Bishopthorpe, Yorkshire
St Edwards Church Memorial Cross, Dringhouses, York
Pre War
Born on 20 Sep 1884 and baptised on 19 Oct 1884 in York son of Donald Sween and Alice Mackay. Educated at Haileybury College 1898-1903. He married Ruth Ursula Cobb (Later Mrs Middleton) in 1910 and lived at Bishopthorpe, York.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 15 Apr 1915 at Boulogne and saw action at the Battle of Poelcapelle. When Lt Col Bousfield (Bn. CO) was wounded, Major Mackay took command of battalion HQ near Wieltje, but was killed by machine gun fire.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
