MACKENZIE, John Henry
| Service Numbers: | QX50717, Q59829 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 March 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia, 24 October 1915 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 September 1995, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Mar 1943: | Involvement Sapper, Q59829, also QX50717 | |
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| 3 Mar 1943: | Involvement Sapper, QX50717, also Q59829 | |
| 3 Mar 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 3 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX50717 | |
| 3 Apr 1946: | Discharged | |
| 3 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX50717 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Jack was the fourth of six children of Charles Henry MacKenzie (b1888 in Ipswich, QLD) and his first wife Kathleen May Gorman (b1881 in Toowoomba, QLD). Charles - a Labourer - and Kathleen married in 1908 in Ipswich, QLD. They lived in Warwick and Goondiwindi where Charles worked as a Railway Porter. Following Kathleen's death in 1924, Charles moved his family to Ipswich where he worked as a Labourer and remarried in 1931.
Jack was a Labourer in Ipswich, QLD when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1943. He was a Sapper (Service Nos:QX50717/Q59829) attached to 7 Field Coy when he was Discharged in April 1946. Uncle David John (Private; Service No:457) was KiA in France in 1916, and brothers William (Sergeant; Service Nos:QX39561/Q59830) and Leslie (Les) Raymond (Sapper; Service Nos:QX50935/Q11319) served in WWII.
Returning to Ipswich, Jack worked as a Labourer before moving to Brisbane where in 1951 he married Catherine (Cassie) Veronica Dunne (b1919 in Brisbane, QLD) - Cassie was a Clerk. Jack and Cassie settled in Toowong, Brisbane where Jack worked as a Linesman. Jack died in 1995.