by Terence Caine on 04 April 2006
John James McGee born Manchester Ancoats 1873 of Irish parents( patrick and Ann). Enlisted 1891 in the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He was given the rank of private and number 3119. He was reported as being wounded at Vryheid on the 11 of the December 1900 fighting with the 2nd Royal Lancaster's. Bizarrely the next entry gives him has died at Dundee on the 17 of August 1901, of alcholic poisoning.