MACKENZIE, Alastair Norman
Service Number: | VX74 |
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Enlisted: | 27 October 1939, South Melbourne, VIC |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | 1 POW Contact and Enquiry Unit |
Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, 23 August 1917 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed (On duty), Java, NEI, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 17 April 1946, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia Plot V1, Row B, Jakarta War Cemetery, Jakarta, Indonesia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Cricket Club WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
27 Oct 1939: | Involvement Captain, VX74 | |
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27 Oct 1939: | Enlisted South Melbourne, VIC | |
27 Oct 1939: | Enlisted VX74 | |
17 Apr 1946: | Involvement Captain, VX74, 1 POW Contact and Enquiry Unit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Three Australian servicemen were ambushed and murdered by Indonesian rebels 30 miles south of Buitenzorg, Java, NEI on the 17th of April 1946 (now known as Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia)
They were investigating the fate of Australian servicemen in the area as members of the Australian War Crimes Investigation Unit / Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit
Flight Lieutenant Hector Murdoch McDonald 120571 RAAF
Squadron Leader Frederick George Birchall 252031 RAAF
Captain Alastair Norman MacKenzie VX74 Australian Army