MCKENZIE, Henry Norman
| Service Number: | 19909 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company |
| Born: | Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, 17 March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine driver |
| Died: | Sketchley Parade, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 26 January 1941, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-16NE. 14. |
| Memorials: | Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 19909, Field Company Engineers | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 19909, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 19909, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 18 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 19909, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
84 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 28th January 1941, Sapper Henry Norman McKenzie, referred to as Harry, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company (Reg No-19909), engine driver from Sloane Street, Goulburn, New South Wales and Sketchley Parade, New Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. PRESBYTERIAN-16NE. 14.
Born at Kiama, New South Wales on the 17th March 1890 to Gordon and Grace McKenzie; husband of Ethel Frances McKenzie nee McMillan, married 1911, Tamworth, N.S.W., died 1968?, from Peel Street, Tamworth, New South Wales, Harry enlisted on the 11th June 1917 with the Field Company Engineers-August 1917 Reinforcements at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 21st November 1917.
Granted leave to England from 3.2.1919 to 20.2.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 1.7.1919.
Harry returned home on the 17th August 1919, being discharged on the 13th October 1919.
Mr. McKenzie’s name has been inscribed on the Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Harry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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