103-YEAR MYSTERY SOLVED
THE family of a Scottish soldier who died during World War I have finally learned the grisly truth about his death.
John McKenzie, who served in the Highland Light Infantry, was 40 when he died during the Battle of Loos in France in September 1915. His family were only told that he had died of wounds he had suffered.
His grandson, also John McKenzie, from Rutherglen, near Glasgow, has now learned that John Sr died during a British poison gas attack on German lines – after some of the gas blew back into the British trenches.
The 77-year-old said: “My cousin has got a daughter in Canada and her child, who is still at school, has a teacher who is very switched on about World War I. She found out what happened to him.”