A most poignant Red Hackle's 'Twins' Great War 'Died-of-Wounds' family medal lot of 5: Privates John Cowan Mackie & Robert Victor Mackie, 1/6th (Perthshire) Battalion Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) (Territorial Force)

- 1914-15 Star (2189 Pte. J. Mackie. R. Highrs.)
- British War Medal. Silver issue (2189 Pte. J. Mackie. R. Highrs.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (2189 Pte. J. Mackie. R. Highrs.)

Sold together with the recipient's twin brother's medals

- British War Medal. Silver issue (3996 Pte. R. Mackie. R. Highrs.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (3996 Pte. R. Mackie. R. Highrs.)

Died-of-Wounds: 265636 Private John Cowan Mackie, 1/6th (Perthshire) Battalion Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), is confirmed being having 'Died-of-Wounds' at the No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station, France, on, 28 May 1918

The memory and supreme sacrifice of Private Mackie is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery , located in the Pas de Calais region of France where the body of the fallen lies in a marked grave, engraved with his service details, and Black Watch regimental insignia, with the below touching epitaph inscription engraved upon it:

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In Loving Memory of my Dear Brother

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Medals verification: All the 5 x Great War medals, verified as entitled per the below cited sources:

- 1914-15 Star (J Mackie): WO 329/2742 (entered France 21 May 1915)
- British War Medal (J. Mackie): WO 329/1357 (records both his numbers 2189 & later 265636)
- Interallied Victory Medal (J. Mackie): WO 329/1357 (records both his regimental numbers vis 1447 & later 265228)

and,

- British War Medal (R. Mackie): WO 329/1357 (records both his numbers 3996 (with 1/6th Bn) & later 266494 (with 1/7th Bn))
- Interallied Victory Medal (R. Mackie): WO 329/1357 (records both his numbers 3996 (with 1/6th Bn) & later 266494 (with 1/7th Bn))

Twin brothers John Cowan Mackie & Robert Victor Mackie, sons of Robert Alexander Ritchie Mackie (Carting Contractor 1856-1900) & Mary Mackie (nee Peddie a native of Moneydie, Perthshire), were both born in, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1898. Sadly the boys father, died in 1900, leaving their mother a widow. By the time of the compilation of the 1901 National Census for Scotland, the family had relocated to the mothers county of birth (Perthshire), with records showing that the Mother was 'Head of House', and living 'On Own Means', the family then comprising, the boys, with sibling older sister, Margaret J. E. Mackie (b. 1894), their mother (b. 1860) and their mother's sister, Elizabeth Peddie. In 1901, the family lived at 'Mafeking Villa', Dunbarney, Perthshire, Scotland.

The medals retaining their original silk 'moire' ribands (a/f)

A most poignant family lot of medals, to brothers who served in same battalion (1/6th) of the most famous of all Highland Regiment's, the famous Red Hackles, the Black Watch

Condition: GVF

Code: 22879