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Munro Mackay worked as a gamekeeper on Edderton Mains before the war and as a Territorial he was mobilised with the Tain Company who went to France in November 1914 as part of the  4th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. His father was George, a shepherd also working at Edderton Mains and his mother Elizabeth was from Garbad Edderton.

He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10th-13th March 1915) unscathed.  After resting in the reserve trenches at Richebourg until the 28th March he moved back into the firing line and it was here on the 30th he was killed. The day started off quietly until 11.30am when the Officer in charge fired three rounds of Mortar Bombs at a machine gun placement in the enemy trenches and four rounds at a ruined house suspected of harbouring snipers. The enemy replied with six rounds of shrapnel which did no damage but later in the day Munro "was shot from rifle fire."
Munro’s brother Donald Mackay had been working as a valet in the the south of England and when the war broke out Donald joined the R.F.A and became a gunner in A Battery in the 4th Brigade. According to family tradition Donald was serving close to Munro when he was wounded and rushed to his brother’s side. By the time he reached him it was too late and Munro had died. 

He  was buried at the Cabernet-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez.