Victor William MACKENZIE

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MACKENZIE, Victor William

Service Numbers:	QX44974, Q11458
Enlisted:	20 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Rosewood, Queensland, Australia, 1 November 1920
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 September 1951, aged 30 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZ 8 1 22
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, QX44974, also Q11458 - FTD 10/11/1941?
20 Mar 1941:	Involvement Gunner, Q11458, FTD 10/11/1941? - also QX44974
20 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
10 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX44974
11 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX44974

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Victor Jnr was the second of four children of Victor William MacKenzie Snr (b1897 in Ipswich, QLD) and Rita Mildred Blake (b1898 in Ipswich, QLD). Victor Snr - a Labourer - and Rita married in Ipswich, QLD in 1917. They settled at Rosewood on the Darling downs where Victor was a Farm Labourer and Farmer. In the mid 1930s Victor and Rita relocated their family to Ipswich, where Victor worked as a Labourer. In the early 1940s the family moved to Hendra in Brisbane, where Victor Snr was a Labourer. Victor's brother David John (Private; Service No:457) was KiA in 1916 in France.

Victor Jnr was a Butcher's Assistant in February 1939 when he enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q11458) and was attached to 61 Battalion when he was Discharged in November 1942 to enlist in the AIF. Victor served as a Gunner (Service No:QX44974) in Darwin (23 June 1942 - 1 July 1943) and the Solomon Islands and New Britain (18 April 1945 - 29 January 1946). Victor was a Gunner attached to 141 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery when he was Discharged in April 1946. Brother Norman Alfred (Service Nos:25488/Q27918) and cousins John Henry (Service No:QX50717), William (Service No:QX39561) and Leslie Raymond (Service Nos:QX50935/Q11319) also served in WWII.

Victor returned to Brisbane where he lived with his siblings in Kedron and worked as a Butcher's Assistant until his death in 1951.

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