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Excerpt from Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. 29: 1914-1919
The volume now published, the Twenty-ninth of the Society's Transactions, covers the period from December, 1914, to July, 1919. It extends to 354 pages, and a glance at the table of contents shows: that, notwithstanding the difficulties under which the work of the Society was carried on during the Great War, these are worthy of the reputation and tradi tions associated with. The Society's Transactions.
The Society has to record the loss since the publication of its last volume in 1918 of a large number of its members, among these many who had a long-standing and in?uential connection with it. In Major Ian Mackay the Great War deprived the Society of one of its most prominent younger members. The Society mourned his loss as a valuable member, and one who, had he been spared, was certain to worthily uphold the ideals and sentiments for which the Society stands. His death was also mourned by the Society as a worthy son of his distinguished father, to whom the Society owes, in great measure, its inception and its in?uence. Major Mackay's career in the Army was followed with great interest by Highlanders and others; and while there is sorrow for his death, there is also pride in that he died as a true Gael fighting nobly for his King and country. Major Mackay was killed in action near Arras on 28th March, 1918.
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