McKEEN, Alexander Cameron Highlanders, Sergeant 1
- Born: 3 August 1893, 8 Parkside Street, Edinburgh, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 7 October 1918, near Thessalonika, Greece 1 3
Other names for Alexander were McKEEN, A. Nisbet, Serjeant 3 and McKEEN, Alexander Nisbet.2
General Notes:
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds the following record about Andrew McKeen:
"Name: McKEEN, A. NISBET
Initials: A N
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 07/10/1918
Service No: 8980
Additional information: Son of Henry and Eleanor Nisbett McKeen, of Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 251.
Cemetery: KIRECHKOI-HORTAKOI MILITARY CEMETERY"
"In Memory of
Serjeant A. NISBET McKEEN
8980, 2nd Bn., Cameron Highlanders
who died age 25
on 07 October 1918
Son of Henry and Eleanor Nisbett McKeen, of Edinburgh.
Remembered with honour
KIRECHKOI-HORTAKOI MILITARY CEMETERY"
Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
"Name: Alexander Mckeen
Birth Place: Newington, Edinburgh, Midlothian
Residence: Edinburgh
Death Date: 7 Oct 1918
Death Location: Salonika
Enlistment Location: Edinburgh
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Number: 8980
Type of Casualty: Died
Theatre of War: Balkan Theatre" 3 4
Research Notes:
Patrick's People is indebted to family members who have actively remembered, and encouraged in family history research, those who served as combatants in war.
"The cemetery is some 15 kilometres north east of Thessaloniki, on the outskirts of the village of Exochi (formerly Kirechkoi), adjacent to the village communal cemetery, just off the road to Hortakoi...
...XVI Corps Headquarters were at Kirechkoi from January 1916, soon after the opening of the Salonika campaign, until the advance to the Struma in September 1916.
The cemetery was begun in March 1916, but it remained a very small one until September 1917, when the 60th, 65th and 66th General Hospitals came to the neighbourhood. In June, July and September 1918, other hospitals were brought to the high and healthy country beside the Salonika-Hortakoi road and in September 1918, the influenza epidemic began which raged for three months and filled three-quarters of the cemetery. The last burial took place in January 1919, but in 1937, 12 graves were brought into the cemetery from Salonika Protestant Cemetery where their permanent maintenance could not be assured.
The cemetery now contains 588 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 58 Bulgarian war graves. There are also 17 burials from the Second World War."
from Find A Grave 5
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