BORN GRIMSBY,1888. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM MCKEE (1857 – 1915) & SARAH HARRIET WHITE, OF 1 CALIDARE AVENUE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH DAISEY MCKEE & TWO DAUGHTERS, LIVED 13A GUINNESS BUILDINGS, BERMONDSEY. A FORMER DOCKSIDE LABOURER. HE SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 12000, ‘B’ COMPANY, 7TH NORFOLK REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED AT LOOS, ON 03/10/1915, AGED 27 AND IS COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS BROTHER, BOMARDIER, GEORGE WILLIAM MCKEE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, WAS KILLED ON 28/05/1917, AGED 35.
ANOTHER BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, THOMAS HENRY MCKEE, 9TH ESSEX REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 02/02/1918. THEY LEFT SISTERS, ANNIE, FLORENCE, SARAH, ETHEL AND YOUNGEST BROTHER, RICHARD.
McKee, John Edward
First name:
JOHN EDWARD
Military Number:
12000
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
03/10/1915
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
27
13 GUINNESS BUILDINGS, LONDON, BERMONDSEY, SOUTHWARK, UK
