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| W. Bro. Jim MacKinnon Honorary Assistant Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1916 - 2005 |
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| Dr James Alan MacKinnon was born on April
13, 1916 in Oldham, Lancashire, the eldest of three children. He was the son of a Dr Ronald MacKinnon, a Skye man, born in Staffin, who had moved to Oldham to practise medicine. His uncle, Dr Murdo MacKinnon was a Skye GP, known locally as Dr Beag, 'the little doctor'. |
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| Jim MacKinnon was educated
at Manchester Grammar School and later went on to Glasgow University, to
study medicine. Prior to the Second World War, in his spare time, Jim was
an active member of the Territorial Army. He met his wife to be, Josie,
at the University and they married two days after the outbreak of hostilities,
in September 1939. World War 2 interrupted his medical studies and he signed
up for the Army to fight for his country.
He served in the 7th Armoured Division in the Tank Corps, becoming a
Tank Commander. He served in France and was involved in the memorable
evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Troops in his Division were some of the
last to leave and he himself narrowly escaped, by using an inflated rubber
ring inner tube, to reach one of the rescue vessels. |
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