Notes
The Roll lists his address as Lincoln Road. It wrongly states that he died in 1915 in Colchester; he actually died in Peterborough on 13/2/1916.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal George William Mackenzie, regimental number 13339, died on 13/2/1916 having served in the 8th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave 8.2.594 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. George's death was registered in Peterborough in 1916. In Broadway Cemetery he shares his grave with his parents, Donald and Kate Mackenzie; the private headstone records that George died on 13/2/1916 aged 30; Donald died on 26/7/1916 aged 65; Kate died on 17/2/1925 aged 68. George William Mackenzie had been born in 1885 in East Ardsley in Yorkshire; when he was baptised there on 4/10/1885, the baptism register recorded his date of birth as 26/8/1885. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents in Station Road, Peterborough, where his father was recorded as being the Station Master. On the 1911 census George was lodging at 58 Frederick Street in Caledonian Road, London. His Army pension file records that he enlisted as a Private on 2/9/1914, and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 28/11/1914. Having served only in the UK, he was discharged from the Army on 22/12/1915, being unfit for military service. His death at home (from an "affection of the throat") and his funeral were reported in the Peterborough Standard on 19/2/1916).