Not much detail from the CWGC on this fellow:
CWGC Agency wrote:
Dougal McKAY is a First World War war dead whose burial location is currently unknown. He served in the 68th Battalion. He died on 18 or 20 June 1916 and is believed to be buried in Stornoway, SK.
Attestation PaperBorn Stornway, Saskatchewan March 13, 1896, son of Angus McKay.
Attested July 24, 1915.
The 1911 Census suggest it might be
Dugall MacKay.
Another casualty on that page led me to a page to search cemetery transcripts from 1850-1994:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2258205No matter how I spell the name, it always comes back to "Baby McKay" who died in December 1916. No other MacKay or McKay listed.
There was a Dougal McKay (as compared to Dugall MacKay) in Saskatchewan (Mackenzie District) in 1911 with a father Angus but he was born in February 1897. The other Angus MacKay with son Dugall unfortunately has no birth information for the son other than that he is 13 (so born in 1898). Based on that I think we have to go with the Dougal McKay, as spelt in the CWGC note, born in February 1897. If that is him, he had 2 older brothers Malcolm (September 1894) and Samuel (December 1895).
There is a Malcolm Angus McKay
#104435 born September 15, 1893. That is the correct family then as he is from Stornoway and 3 digits different. they attested together. Older brother Samuel attested March 1, 1915
#86552, same family but born in Dunleith, Saskatchewan on December 12, 1894 (so all the dates are out a year in the census).
Angus, Samuel, Malcolm and Dougal are all still listed on the
1916 Saskatchewan Census. This is an original image, so look at lines 44 to 47. Odd that it does not give the date of the census?
Where the brothers are buried we may find Dougal?
Samuel died October 13, 1915 and is in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, UK. (
CWGC Link)
It appears Malcolm survived the war, so we can look for where he was buried.
There are references to an
old, overgrown cemetery in Stornoway. Another message reports there are
only 2 cemeteries in Stornoway, one Lutheran and one Scottish. All the McKay men were listed in the census documents as Presbyterians. They mention Yorkton Cemetery and Wroxton and a lady by the name of Theresa with an office in Yorkton that is "Keeper of the Records".
Ancestry member "lanton1" has a copy of all the interments in the old unmarked cemetery, mostly Scottish names (
see message). That person has left an e-mail address [wanton-@-frontiernet.net], as of March 2014. I will touch base. A message has
been posted.