![]() ![]() ![]() Sgt Mackenzie was bayoneted to death at the age of 35, while defending one of his badly injured comrades in the hand-to-hand fighting of the trenches.Īccording to Joe, on that day, his great grandmother and grandmother were sitting at the fire when Sgt Mackenzie’s picture fell from the wall. Charles Stuart Mackenzie, from Bishopmill, who along with hundreds of other Seaforth Highlanders from the Elgin/Rothes area went to fight in the Great War. Joe wrote the song in memory of his grandfather, Sgt. This song was written and sung by the late Joseph Kilna Mackenzie, whose family is from Rothes, 80 kilometres east of Inverness. Anyone who has watched the movie We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, has heard the lament, Sgt Mackenzie. ![]() Poignant songs of wartimeīased on those truly sobering figures, it is fitting that three of the most iconic songs written about the slaughter of World War I were penned and sang by Scots. And 11 out of every 100 military-aged Scottish males during the war became casualties of combat. So, if you served in a Scottish Regiment during the Great War, you stood a 1 in 4 chance of being killed or wounded. Total killed and wounded as a percentage of military aged males (15-49) = 11%. 26% total casualties as a percentage of the total manpower mobilized. Therefore, almost 4% of the Scottish male population were killed or wounded in the Great War.īreaking it down even further, in his book The Pity of WarNiall Ferguson has these figures concerning Scotland in WWI. Scotland: Fielded 336 Battalions which suffered approximately 85,000 total casualties. The casualty percentages of the Scottish population are as follows. MORE: Scottish nurses on the Western Front James compares the 1911 United Kingdom census data for the male population of Scotland with the British casualties incurred in the First World War. In his book, British Regiments 1914-18 Brigadier General E. Scottish soldiers certainly bore their fair share of that carnage. John Miles tells the story of three iconic songs which remember the sacrifice made by Scots in the Great War.Īnyone who has ever studied World War I, realizes what a horrible blood-bath it was. ![]()
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