| 26/03/2018 |
The CWGC record Private Alexander McKinney as the son of A McKinney. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Private Alexander McKinney has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 70-72 on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Private Alexander McKinney was killed in action during the Third Battle of Ypres on 16th August 1917, aged just 19. |
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He enlisted in Omagh, joining the 8th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and after training he was sent with the draft to France in the autumn of 1916. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Alexander was a member of Saltersland Presbyterian Church. |
| 30/12/2015 |
The 1911 census lists Alexander as age 12 at house 23 in Ballyriff, Loop. He was living with his cousin, John McKinney, who was a farmer. He was still at school. |
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The 1901 census lists Alexander as age 2 at house 16 in Ballyriff, Loop living with the Taylor family. |
| 30/12/2015 |
So Alexander McKinney was an orphan from the day he was born in the Loup, Moneymore. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Even more tragically, Alexander Senior had died just a month before, on 7th April 1898 in the Magherafelt area. He was 55 years old. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Alexander was born on 9th May 1898 in the Magherafelt area. It seems his mother died during childbirth as she died on the same day. She was 39 years old. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Alexander McKinney was the son of Alexander and Rachel McKinney (nee Griffin). They were married on 17th December 1897 in Magherafelt. |
