MCKENZIE, Leslie Raymond
| Service Numbers: | Q11319, QX50935 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 February 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 41 Field Training Battery |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 2 January 1921 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Glazier |
| Died: | Tewantin, Queensland, Australia, 24 July 2009, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cleveland Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Feb 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q11319, 11 Field Regiment AMF | |
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| 18 Sep 1939: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 41 Field Training Battery | |
| 28 Jan 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q11319, 41 Field Training Battery | |
| 27 Mar 1943: | Involvement Sapper, QX50935, also Q49517 | |
| 27 Mar 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 14 Mar 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Les was the youngest of six children of Charles Henry MacKenzie (b1888 in Ipswich, QLD) and Kathleen May Gorman (b1888 in Toowoomba, QLD). Charles - a Labourer - and Kathleen married in Ipswich in 1908. Charles joined QLD Railways and the family lived in Ipswich, Goondiwind1 and Warwick. Following Kathleen's death in 1924, Charles moved his family to Ipswich where he remarried in 1931 and worked as a Labourer.
Les was a Glazier living in Brisbane, QLD when he enlisted in the ACMF in February 1939. He served as a Private (Service No:Q11319) with 11 Field Brigade and 41st Field Battery until 1943. He was on Goods Island when he was Discharged in 1943 to enlist with the Army. He was a Sapper (Service No:QX50935) attached to 55 Field Park Coy when he was Discharged in March 1946. Uncle David John MacKenzie (Private; Service No:457) was KiA in France in 1916, and brothers William (Sergeant; Service Nos:QX39561/Q59830) and John (Jack) Henry (Sapper; Service Nos:QX50717/Q59829) also served in WWII.
In 1949 Les was working as a Glass Beveller in Brisbane, QLD when he married Claire (Peg) Margaret Linnegar (b1927 in Wynnum, QLD). Les and Peg settled in Brisbane, QLD where Les worked as a Glass Beveller. Following Peg's death in 1999, Les relocated to Tewantin- near Noosa on QLDs Sunshine Coast where he died in 2009.