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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 13, 2020 0:00:35 GMT 12
OBITUARY
L.A.C. ALEXANDER Y. MCKENZIE
L.A.C. Alexander Yule McKenzie, whose death has occurred in Wellington Hospital, was the grandson of Mr. Alexander Yule, one of the Scottish immigrants who arrived in Wellington on the Bengal Merchant in 1840. Born at Ashhurst 64 years ago, L.A.C. McKenzie spent his early life in Palmerston North. A keen athlete, he represented Manawatu at Rugby football in 1903. Too young to be accepted for service in the Boer War, he made his own way to South ,Africa and: enlisted there, serving as L/Sergeant in Bethune's Mounted Infantry, and in the Petersburg Light Horse from March, 1901, until July, 1902. In the Great War he was quartermaster farrier sergeant of the Wellington Mounted Rifles in Egypt but was returned to New Zealand through ill health towards the close of 1915. Keen to serve again in the present war he made unavailing efforts to get overseas, and ultimately joined the R:N.Z.A.F., serving on various stations until his death., He is survived by seven children, his son; Colin, being at present on active service in Italy, and by four grandchildren.
From the EVENING POST, 24 MARCH 1944.
He must have been one of the oldest serving men i the wartime RNZAF?
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