Fighting Mac

In preparation for a chapter in a book I am writing I have been researching the life of 'Fighting Mac' - William McKenzie, a Salvation Army padre at Gallipoli and on the Western front. It is often said that Gallipoli defined Australia as a nation. I think it also helped to define Salvos as people who are 'there when they are needed'. Mc Kenzie was right up at the front line and personally took a shovel 'over the top' and buried hndreds of men, tenderly retrieving identity discs and personal items which he later delivered to grieving realatives all over Australia. Small wonder that the largest buildings available could not contain the thousands who wanted to meet and gratefully greet him on his return to Australia. Salvationists don't canonise their heroes but if we did 'fighting Mac' would have to be one of them