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Frank McKie

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
406889
Unit at enlistment: 
36th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
September 27th, 1918
Cemetery: 
Ontario Cemetery - Nord, France - I.A.20.
Commemorated at: 
Sergeants Mess
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Oxford
Birth city: 
Bright, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
Bright, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Bookkeeper
Employer: 
Brantford Carriage Works
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
20
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Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. Shortly after leaving the “jumping off” trench during the attack North East of Inchy-en-Artois he was hit in the chest and heart and killed by fragments from an enemy high explosive shell.

BX October 11, 1918

Mrs. Hannell, 88 Ontario Street, has received word that her brother, Signaller Frank McKie, was killed in action on September 27. He was serving with the First Canadian trench light mortars at the time of his death. Private McKie had seen considerable service. He left Brantford as a signaller under Lieut. Jack Genet with the 36th Battalion, and for a year, he was retained as an instructor in England. He gave up the rank of sergeant to get to France. 

BX March 16, 1915

Remembered on Eve of Departure

An interesting event in the history of the Brantford Carriage Works took place yesterday, when Frank McKie was presented with a wrist watch and some “chicken feed” to buy smokes by the employees of the company. The address read as follows:

Mr. Frank McKie,

Your friends and co-workers of the Brantford Carriage Works ask you to accept this small token of their appreciation and esteem, on your leaving to join the colours. The watch will enable you to note the time that peace is proclaimed to the world and the “chicken feed’ will enable you to smoke the “pipe of peace” and we are sure that anything you undertake will not “end in smoke.

Sincerely wishing you “good luck” and a safe return,

The employees of the Brantford Carriage Works

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