More about John Horn Mack

John H Mack was the brother of Mrs Christina Clark of Drostau, Newport Road, Tayport, Fife and was working as a Compositor in Glasgow when, in July 1915, he volunteered to join the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for service in the Royal Naval Division. After training at the Crystal Palace in South London he went to Blandford Camp in Dorset for advanced military training in August. In October he was drafted to the Anson Battalion serving in Gallipoli and may have arrived there in November. All allied land forces were evacuated from Gallipoli by January 1916 and John Mack was employed in garrison duties on the island of Stavros. In April, he became ill and was evacuated to Britain onboard the Hospital Ship Rewa. Here, he was admitted to the Dreadnought Hospital at Greenwich for treatment and was fit enough to return to Blandford in August. In due course he was drafted to France in September and employed in No 3 Entrenching Battalion. In November he re joined the Anson Battalion but spent time detached to the Labour Company and the 188 Brigade Machine Gun Company during 1917. John Mack was killed in action during the fighting at Passchendaele but his body was not recovered and he is buried in the Tyne Cot Memorial at Ypres, Belgium.