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Lt. James Wesley Mackenzie
British Army 9th (Service) Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Belfast
James Mackenzie was a medical student at Cambridge when he enlisted on 3rd September 1914 and was sent to France in May 1915. He was wounded twice in France and finished up being demobbed in 1920 in Egypt from where he joined the Palestine Police.
It was in 1922, as assistant district commander of Galilee, that he drowned in the flooded River Jordan trying to save an Arab Inspector. He is buried in Palestine.