MCKENZIE, Andrew
| Service Number: | WX5581 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Katanning, Western Australia, 15 July 1916 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Column 93, |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Katanning War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX5581 | |
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| 11 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX5581, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Margaret McKenzie, of Dunbar, Western Australia.
Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Andrew's mother Margaret McKENZIE married in 1920 in Katanning to James Augustus FLEAY. They had three sons, half-brothers to Andrew and his sister Jessie. One of his half-brothers Alan FLEAY was a sergeant in the RAAF; he was killed during a flying exercise with a trainee pilot in NSW in 1943.
Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Andrew was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.
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