MCKENZIE, Melville
| Service Number: | 8610 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Laura, South Australia, 20 April 1887 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Jamestown, South Australia, 29 March 1933, aged 45 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Section: LO, Road: 2S, Site No: 24 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 8610, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 8610, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Melbourne | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 8610 |
A family's thanks
17th Battn AIF D Towns 2824
"Found dead 3.10.17"
I would like to tell the Red Cross that I buried a man called D. Towns (17th Battn)
about Oct.3rd during the Passchendaele Battle, going up the Ridge. He must have been a machine gunner, as he was on a machine gun position, close by a gun and I think he must have been killed by a shell. He was lying in the open close to our Battery and I felt that I must bury him, so I took his particulars from his shrapnel helmet and his box gas respirator and entered them all in my book. I am sorry to say that my book was lost when I was wounded and I cannot give the Red Cross his No. or Coy. I gave him a good burial, and put up a board with his particulars on, so that when the Records came they would be able to find his grave. Ground was held.
Eye-witness: Yes
Description: Inf. could give no particulars
Informant: - Sgt. Melville McKenzie 8610
14th Bty.5th Bgde. Aust. Fld. Art
3rd Sthrn.Gen.Hpl. Oxford
Submitted 18 February 2015 by Jennifer Young
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