Surname:	McKerlich
Forename(s):	Christopher McRae
Rank:	Private
Service number:	1770
Regiment:	4th Cameron Highlanders ‘C’ Company
Date of death:	18 May 1915 Age 29
Place of death:	Festubert
Buried Commemorated	Unknown Le Touret Memorial – Panel 41E

Background

Christopher  was born on 14 December 1885 at 17 Church Street, Inverness. He was the son of Christina McKerlich who, at the time of his birth, was a Domestic Servant and domiciled at Bundalloch, Parish of Kintail, Ross-shire. At the time of his death his mother, Christina McKerlich, was still living in Bundaloch where she died in 1920. 

War Record

Christopher enlisted in Kingussie and travelled to France on 19 February 1915 and was Killed in Action 18 May 1915 at Festubert. He is commemorated at Le Touret and is commemorated as MacKerlich.

Christopher is also commemorated on the gravestone of WIlliam Rose and Elizabeth Denoon and family at Kirkhill Cemetery, Inverness-shire but his connection to them is not known.

He is also remembered on the Ring of Rememberance, Notre Dame-de-Lorette.

Sometimes McKerlich is spelt McErlich or MacKerlich.