Other Information:John was educated at George Watson's College from 1908 to 191l, then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating M.B. Ch.B. in 1916. Having trained in the Medical Unit of the Edinburgh University Officer Training Corps from 1914, he gained a Commission in the R.A.M.C., Special Reserve at the rank of Lieutenant in August 1916, being promoted to Captain in March 1917. John entered the war in France on 12th September 1916. He served with the Northumbrian Field Ambulance, and was Medical Officer to the Northumbrian Fusiliers until May 1917, when he was invalided home suffering from trench fever. After a period of home service, acting as Medical Officer in Ripon, he returned to France in January 1918, and became Medical Officer to the Durham Light Infantry. In the April he was awarded the Military Cross “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at an advanced dressing station, under heavy shell fire, during an enemy attack. He persisted in his work, and successfully evacuated all the wounded before withdrawing his personnel. At another advanced dressing station later he stuck to his duty for seventy-two hours without rest.” John was the elder and only surviving son of Kenneth Peter and Margaret Mackenzie of Lochinver, Sutherlandshire.
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