![]() ![]() ![]() This picture hung in his home above the fireplace. He replied, “what a waste of a fine body of men.” His last picture, with him in uniform, was taken on the steps of the hospital. While recuperating in the hospital, he was asked what it was like to kill “the Hun” (as the Germans were called then). MacKenzie refused, stating that he had to go back to his men. The military sent him home to Scotland for treatment, where the surgeon wanted to amputate his arm. Charles Stuart MacKenzie went to fight in France during World War I and was shot in the shoulder. His grave stone states that he died on 9 April 1917…. Sergeant MacKenzie was bayoneted to death at age 33, while defending one of his badly injured fellow soldiers during hand-to-hand trench warfare. ![]() Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in World War I. It was used in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers.… MacKenzie” is a lament written and sung by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie, in memory of his great-grandfather who was killed in combat during World War I. ![]()
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