Veteran Notes/Bio
- Not listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) but listed in Bygone Queanbeyan as,"J.L.KIA 1916(B)".
- "MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 273 ;POB:Bungendore :POE:Sydney;NOK: Father: John McKay."Gidleigh".
- AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 1 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] (October 1914) ; Age:20 11/12 ; Occupation:Labourer ;DOE:19.08.1914 ; Embarked:Sydney.HMAT Star of Victoria.A16.
- AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ( as recorded on Field Service Report) ;Unit: 1 Light Horse ;DOE:19.08.1914 : RTA:KIA (Pope's Hill) 8.8.1915.2.Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial,Gallipoli.
- See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6 .First Bungendore Volunteer.Recorded as "Trooper".
- One of the 14 "Gidleigh" Diggers.See entries for HF and TLF Rutledge below.
- Goulburn Evening Penny Post 2.9.1915 ( Bungendore and the War) reported Trooper Joseph McKay KIA.9.
- Palerang Council gave notice in the Bungendore Mirror 01 July 2015 that it intended to use the road name of McKay Drive in Lot 23 DP 61583 4- 33 Trucking Yard Lane Bungendore (DA 2011.338) .Origin of the name cited as being commemorated on the Bungendore Memorial Roll of Honour.
- Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 2.
- Application to use Rising Sun Badge:On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on the street sign for "McKay" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations.This request was approved on 21 December 2015.
- "McKay Drive" as proposed at para 8 above has been implemented by Palerang Council. .This Drive is named after both William James and Joseph Lewis MacKay.
- Last updated January 2017