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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Mackie Norman Rochester.
|Army number=14419140.
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.  Born Ayr.
|Age=20 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Conscripted into the General Staff Corps.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Initial postings not yet known - probably to a Training Regiment.  Posted to the 143rd Field Regiment.  Served Normandy and North West Europe.  Killed in action at Ede, Netherlands, 17/4/1945.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known, other than the injuries which caused his death.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 17/4/1945.  Initially interred at Arnhem (isolated) Holland Ginkel Farm 40 yards East of the road running from Arnhem to Ede.  Re-buried on 17/8/1945 in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Plot 7.A.6.  Headstone inscription reads "MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN MAKES COUNTLESS THOUSANDS MOURN".
|Home address=Son of William Gordon Mackie and Joan Mackie of Ayr.   
}}


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