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Lt Callum James Mckinley - British/ Scottish Army WW1 - head medical officer and later Dr Mckinley for the Westminster hospital.( 17th April 1886 - 3rd August 1970)
Callum John Ernest Mckinley was born in Scotland and raised as a strong dependable young man. By the age of 16 he was signed up in the medical corps and when he hit twenty eight, he was drafted into the British army where he spent four years tending to the injured at the Somme in Amiens. All The while he was there, He was pining for his love in London @mackenziexlightwood who he had met before he was deployed, he vowed if he came back alive he would marry her. He would get up every morning and look at a sketch of her and then go to war, every night he would pray to god she would still be in London when the war ended.Â
While in the Somme, Callum tended to J.R.R Tolkien and saved him from dying Tolkien then went on to write Lord of the Rings and cited Callum as the inspiration of Lord Elrond as he was calm and strong but had the ability to care about everyone. Callum fought int he royal Scots regiment, but decided that when the war ended he would move to London to be with his love. He had bought an engagement ring before he was deployed and kept it with him throughout the war to bring home to Mackenzie.Â
After the war, Callum tended to his mother who sadly died of the Spanish flu before he wed his love, but she did get see the engagement ring and meet Mackenzie. Callum proposed on New years in front of big Ben. He was then awarded the King George Medical medal of honour. Callum and Mackenzie were married on 11th November also known as memorial day in the United Kingdom. A year later they were blessed with twin boys and then a daughter.Â
Life was good for Callum, his daughter grew up to be a doctor and to find up the cure for small pox and one of his sons was a goal keeper for England in 1966 and his other son was a philosopher. Callum passed away peacefully in his sleep in 1970. His last words were â I love you.â to his wife who was by his side. She passed away a week later from a broken heart.Â
Song đś - The battle of the Somme -Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders