Photo: Brian Chandler
In St.Mary’s Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Jane
beloved wife of Alexander Mackay
who died July 27 1921 aged 65 years
Also their sons
Pte. A. Mackay 23/N.F.
who fell in France
July 1st 1916 aged 22 years
Tpr. J.R. Mackay, 14th King’s Hussars
who died at Basra
Dec. 30th 1917 aged 28 years.
also the above
Alexander Mackay
died Feb. 3rd 1943, aged 86 years.
Also A.B. Jack Mackay Tyrie, R.N.
grandson of the above, who was
accidently drowned at Singapore
on June 18th 1946, aged 20 years.
Alexander Mackay is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01, M17.02, M17.09, in the Battalion History and possibly on M17.29