Leslie Raymond (Les) MCKENZIE

MCKENZIE, Leslie Raymond

Service Numbers: Q11319, QX50935
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
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World War 2 Service

20 Feb 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q11319, 11 Field Regiment AMF
18 Sep 1939: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 41 Field Training Battery
28 Jan 1943: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army 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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Biography 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.

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