Image of John Angus MacKinnon in uniform, (SL/D188/1/3/13/4 )
This notebook belonged to John Angus MacKinnon from Stenscholl in Skye and dates from 1916, when he was training as an officer during the First World War. John Angus MacKinnon enlisted with his local territorial regiment, the 4th Cameron Highlanders, and went to France in February 1915. He was wounded at the Battle of Festubert in May 1915 but returned to active service. He was selected to train as an officer in the autumn of 1915 and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment the following year. John Angus was killed in action during an attack on Passchendaele Ridge on 22 August 1917.
The Skye and Lochalsh Archive holds a large collection of artwork by his nieces, Catriona and Mairead Macdonald, along with other family papers.
