MCKAY, Donald Bell

Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Engineers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
199623
Died : 
Tuesday, March 23, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
28
Second Lieutenant Donald Bell Mckay was commissioned on 19 April 1942 [1].
Named on a partial nominal roll in this archive as a Royal Engineers Lieutenant in No.4 Commando during the Dieppe raid on 19 August 1942.
Lieutenant McKay died of wounds on 23 March 1943 serving with 270 Field Coy, R.E., and is buried in Tunisia [2][3][Notes]. 
 
Sources
[1] London Gazette 35546, page 1964.
[2] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/4.
[3] CWGC.
 
Notes
Listed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as serving with 270 Field Company, Royal Engineers. 
No. 4 Commando were not in this theatre of war at the time.
 
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