Three of their sons died on active service and a fourth was badly wounded. Three sons, Donald, Lachlan and William, married and their children's first enrolments at Te Rore School are recorded in the school register between 1889 and 1906. Perhaps there were also children of McKinnon daughters, but their history has not been established. They had six children, the youngest a newborn, but a three-year-old daughter died on June 7, 1917, and their eight-year-old son died in 1921. William and Mary's son Robert was killed in action in France on August 8, 1918, just days before their youngest son, William, was called up.

Source: Stuff August 09, 2018 17:02 UTC