James Mackie (Seville): Born in Scotland, he had only been in Australia for three years when he leaves his job as a baker at his father’s store in Seville to enlist in the AIF. He is 19 years old and requires his father’s permission to go overseas. In giving his consent his father writes to the authorities that he ‘had great pleasure in granting him my permission to join the expeditionary force in the time of need like this’.