Mackinnon, LCBF
(1888 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
13th September 1888
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1902 - 1907
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
155 Rosendale Road, West Dulwich
REGIMENT
Royal Engineers
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
21st March 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
29
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Gouzeaucourt
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Arras Memorial Bay 1
2nd Lieutenant Louis Charles Bowden Fullerton Mackinnon
Born in Jamaica on September 13th 1888, Louis was the eldest of four surviving children of a civil servant and railway worker, also named Louis Mackinnon, and his wife, Agnes. The family returned to London upon the father’s retirement, and in 1902 Louis started at the College alongside his younger brother, Ronald, and was at the College for the next five years. In 1906 he played in the 1st XV alongside his brother before leaving the following summer. He went on to become a fully qualified Chemical Engineer, passing his final exams in 1912. He was also a committed member of the OAs, and on one occasion broke a leg whilst playing for the team.
In November 1915 Louis joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., although after only four months he transferred to the London Scottish. He went over to France with his new regiment in September 1916 and spent the next three months on the Somme. That December he returned to England to take up a commission in the Royal Engineers. He returned to France in September 1917 and was posted to the 518th Field Company, based at Cambrai. He remained serving with them for the next six months until, on March 21st 1918, he was reported missing in the vicinity of Gouzeaucourt, and not seen again. His younger brother, Ronald, a fellow OA, had been killed on the Somme the previous year.
