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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, F.R.S.C.
DIRECTOR
HALIFAX, N.S.

MG 1 volume 2124 number 162 a

Note Mr. William King, Chief Petty Officer of the R. N. C. C. whom Cadet Captain McKenzie heard crying out for water, would be normally standing about the door of the gun-room. Sometimes he came inside and talked to the cadets. McKenzie tried to swab King's face with a roller-towel in the corner of the room. In his efforts he pulled the whole fixture down and put his fist through the window, in his endeavor to help King out. Then he fainted as did King, who only recovered consciousness in the Morgue two days later. Kingsley saw Engineer Commander Howley come out of the building bleeding, and Engineer Lieutenant A. Curry "white as a sheet". Howley took command. Kingsley thinks the cadets must have reached Cogswell St. Hospital in about a quarter of an hour, fast walking. As the hospital was full, he asked if McKenzie had any friends in the city. McKenzie said "Yes," the McMechans". Kingsley saw a Ford car standing by, with two soldiers in it and asked an officer if he might have it; put McKenzie into it and brought him to 72 Victoria Road, where McKenzie remained until just before Christmas. After McKenzie was brought into the house Kingsley went in the car to the nearest doctor, which was Dr. Philip Weatherbee, at Queen St., who treated McKenzie for glass in his eyes.

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