MACKIE, Desmond Vincent
| Service Number: | VX8262 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 3 June 1915 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Steward |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 August 1970, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 14 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX8262 | |
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| 21 Jun 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX8262 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Desmond Vincent Mackie (Service No:VX8262) enlisted in the Army on 14 May 1940 and was a Gunner attached to 2/4 Field Regiment Artillery when he was Discharged in absentia on 21 January 1946.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1915, Des was fifth of nine children of Thomas Lawrence Mackie (b1873 in Murchison, Victoria) and Margaret Lillian Madigan (b1883 in Melbourne, Victoria). Thomas was a Labourer in Echuca and Margaret was a Presser in Melbourne when they married in 1908 and lived in Echuca where Thomas was a Farmer. They settled in Melbourne in 1914 and Thomas worked as a Labourer and Railway Employee.
Des worked in Melbourne as a Labourer and Steward before enlisting in the Army. In 1946 he was in Beaufort, Victoria when he married Amelia Eleanor Glenister (b1923 in Beaufort, Victoria). Des and Amelia settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Des was a Labourer and Factory Worker until his death in 1970. Amelia died in 1965.