Name
Edward Reeves Mackey (DCM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/03/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
56 Reserve Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. ALBANS (HATFIELD ROAD) CEMETERY
F. A. 2.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the St Albans memorials (*1)
Pre War
Only son of Edward and Christina Mackey of Hull.
Wartime Service
Previously Machine Gun Corps.
Accidentally killed while flying a BE2e 7069 at Shenley. Second Lieutennant George Stevenson Raine died in the same incident and he is buried in Hampstead Cemetery.
Additional Information
Edward's grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
In loving memory of
LIEUT E. R. MACKEY, D.C.M.
ROYAL FLYING CORE AGED 30 YEARS
ROYAL FLYING CORE AGED 30 YEARS
WHO WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT SHENLEY MARCH 15TH 1917
ONLY SON OF EDWARD AND CHRISTINA MACKEY OF HULL
PRO PATRIA MORI.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
