INT: We usually finish by asking what you would say were the high points and the low points in your life. Would you like to finish off by telling us that? JM: The high points of my life…. I got the MBE, which is something. INT: For your war work? JM: Not for my war… Continue Reading John Mackay – Reflection on life
So I went to Sennelager, and when I was at Sennelager I was in charge of everything, being the Quartermaster – the stores, transport anything that meant anything. I could have bought Germany with the number of cigarettes I had. If you smoked, and I did smoke occasionally, somebody would follow you until you through… Continue Reading John Mackay – After the war
INT. John you said you had volunteered to be a Commander. JM It was a word I’d never heard of. I thought they’d misspelt it. I thought it should be command. Commandos, I really didn’t have any idea until somebody told me that Churchill had done things with the commandos in the South African War… Continue Reading John Mackay – During the war
INT: Today is the second of July 2015 and I’m here in Broughty Ferry to speak to John MacKay. INT: So, John, can I begin by asking when you were born and where? JM: Not in Broughty Ferry. My name is John Stewart MacKay, and I was born in Glasgow in Shawlands in Peveril Avenue… Continue Reading John Mackay – Before the war
