Bruce Gray MCKENZIE

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MCKENZIE, Bruce Gray

Service Number:	160
Enlisted:	7 December 1915, Newcastle, NSW
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stroud, New South Wales, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	East Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Manaro Grammar School Cooma
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Killed In Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917
Cemetery:	Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium XLIV C 21
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cooma St. Paul's Anglican Church Lynch Gate, Melbourne Bank of Australasia Roll of Honour WW1, Stroud Cenotaph

World War 1 Service

7 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 160, 35th Infantry Battalion, Newcastle, NSW
1 May 1916:	Involvement Corporal, 160, 35th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Corporal, 160, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
12 Oct 1917:	Involvement Lieutenant, 34th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 34th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-10-12

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John Andrew McKenzie and Sophia nee Bowden
Prior to enlistment he was a Bank Clerk, Bank of Australasia, Newcastle

Lieut. B. G. McKenzie Wounded.
Mrs. S. Fulton, of George-street, East Maitland, has received word from the Base Records Office, Melbourne, that her son, Second-lieutenant B. G. McKenzie has been reported admitted to the 3rd London Genoral Hospital, Wandsworth, England, on June 10, suffering from a gunshot wound in the left leg.

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