McKie Lawrence CSM
Personnel Entry
Name McKie Lawrence
Army number 4445160
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born in Birtley 12/4/1909.
Age 64 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - Territorial Army - for 4 years, at Birtley on 16/3/1926 at the age of 17. Transferred to the Middlesex Regiment 20/7/1928. Posted to the 8th Battalion. Later posted to the 2/8th Battalion (2nd Battalion, Kensington Regiment). Served in Iceland. Posted to India. Served Burma. Discharged in Warwick in 1947.
Company/Battery Not yet confirmed.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Company Sergeant Major.
Joined Brigade When the 2nd Kensingtons were allocated to the 70th Infantry Brigade Group.
Promotions Through the ranks - reaching Company Sergeant Major - Warrant Officer Class II.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death 1/9/1973. Registered in Chelsea Q3 1973, from the Royal Hospital. Probate granted in London 14/12/1973 in the sum of £1032.
Home address Worked as a Blacksmith at the time of his Attestation. No next of kin noted in the Enlistment Book entry but his father was Alonzo McKie and his mother Jane (nee Pickering). Married Dora Wiggins in April 1931 at Uxbridge, Middlesex. In the 1911 Census he is shown as living with his grandparents, parents and siblings at 40, Gladstone Terrace, Birtley. In the 1921 Census he was living with his family at 40, Mitchell Street, Birtley.
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