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A/Capt Harry Olphert McKee MID.
British Army 12th Btn Royal Irish Rifles
from:Londonderry
Uncle Harry McKee, as I knew him, was my father's uncle and I knew him all my life until he died in 1966. He would tell us about the Great War but never about the fighting. One of his friends was in charge of some mules and refused to eat steak in Belgium in 1919 as he was not a "cannibal". After the war he had something to do with the A Specials in Londonderry, but I'm not sure exactly what. I have been unable to find anything about his service record as we don't know his Army Number, but I know he was Mentioned in Despatches at least once as he has two oak leaves with his medals, as well as a Belgian Croix de Guerre.

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