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• Name MACKENZIE
• Initials GLB
• First name GEORGE LAWRENCE BISSET
• Place of birth Deer Park
• Country Toronto
• Family Only son of George Allan Mackenzie and Ella Therese Mackenzie, of 665, Grosvenor Avenue, Westmount, Montreal; grandson of the Revd. John G.D.Mackenzie
• Education Elmhurst School, Weston, England
  Upper Canada College, Toronto; law student with Messrs. Jones & Leonard, Toronto; Lausanne, Suisse.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 20 April 1915, Toronto
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 3rd Bn. Central Ontario (Toronto) Regiment
• Division - Brigade 1st Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Was first refused owing to his eyesight; enlisted 3rd Bn. (Toronto Rgt.); transferred 35th Bn.; to France October 1915; transferred 3rd Bn.

Death

• Wounded Sanctuary Wood
• Type of wounds Killed in action, by an enemy sniper when returning to his Bn., after reporting the result of his reconnaissance to Bn. H.Q. and after bringing back safely his companion who was wounded.
• Date of death 7 June 1916
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 17

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