Remembered today

[Malcolm]

Surname McKENNA

Firstname John

Service number 6912

Date of death 26/06/1916

Decoration

Place of birth Killiegh King's Co

Other 6th Bn.

SNWM roll SCOTTISH CASUALTIES EXTRACTED FROM IRISH REGIMENTS

Rank Pte

Theatre of death F.& F.

Name: McKENNA, JOHN

Initials: J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Connaught Rangers

Unit Text: 6th Bn.

Age: 39

Date of Death: 26/06/1916

Service No: 6912

Additional information: Husband of Catherine McKenna, of Distillers Cottages, Gamkirk, Glasgow.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 124.

Cemetery: LOOS MEMORIAL

Cemetery: LOOS MEMORIAL

Country: France

Locality: Pas de Calais

Visiting Information: Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible, but may be by alternative entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200. The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels.

Location Information: The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. Loos-en-Gohelle is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens, and Dud Corner Cemetery is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, to the north-east of the N43 the main Lens to Bethune road.

Historical Information: Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle. The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.

Aye

Malcolm

[Steve Bramley]

Malcolm,

I shall look for John's name on panel 124 after visiting panels 31-34 on Thursday.

Regards,

Steve.