Lieutenant John Macaskill
b: BEF 1892
d: AFT 1897
Biography
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 213. Was commissioned in
the 18th Royal Irish in January 1892. Promoted Lieutenant in the
following year, he was appointed to the Punjab Frontier Force in 1894.
He took part in operations in Waziristan in 1894-95, the Chitral Relief
Force and was actively employed with his corps in the Malakand Field
Force in 1897. In all these operations, Lt. John MacAskill behaved with
distinction.
Facts
  • BEF 1892 - Birth -
  • AFT 1897 - Death -
Ancestors
   
Major-General Sir John Macaskill
BEF 1797 - 18 DEC 1845
 
   
  
  
 
Lieutenant John Macaskill
BEF 1892 - AFT 1897
  
 
  
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Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) Colonel John C. Macaskill
Birth1819
Death1898 Bedford
Marriageto ?
FatherMajor-General Sir John Macaskill
MotherAnnie Steele
PARENT (U) ?
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CHILDREN
MLieutenant John Macaskill
BirthBEF 1892
DeathAFT 1897