Born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1854, Kenneth Mackenzie Wray married Grace Edwards in Sydney in 1881. Wray was living at Goulburn, NSW and was serving with the NSW Mounted Rifles at the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. Serving with C Company of the NSW Bushmen, he embarked aboard the transport Armenian at Sydney on 23 April 1900. Captain Wray returned to Australia in July 1901 aboard the transport Orient. He was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in September 1901. Wray's son, Lieutenant Charles Douglas Waller Wray, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, AIF and daughter Sister Cecil Dallas Wray AANS, saw service during the First World War. His grandsons, Major Charles Henry Waller Wray, 2/6th Cavalry Regiment and Sergeant George Edwin Cecil Wray, 234 Anti-Aircraft Battery, AIF and granddaughter Flight Officer Nina Beatrice Wray, 4th Personnel Training Depot, WAAF served during the Second World War. Kenneth Mackenzie Wray died in Sydney on 5 October 1927.