Private William McKenzie
Killed in Action 20th November 1917
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William McKenzie
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Son of Finley James and Jane (Woolfrey) McKenzie
Sand Bank, Groswater Bay, Labrador
b. 1 January 1894
d. 20 November 1917Enlisted:11 November 1916 at Cartwright
Age 22 years 10 months
Embarked St John's for UK: 14 July 1917
Embarked for France 6 November 1917
KIA November 20th, 1917Victory Medal and British War Medal
Willie McKenzie was exempt from military service by virtue of being the sole supporter of his aged mother. This was explained to him by the local magistrate. He didn't have to go to war, and he didn't want to go, but peer pressure persuaded him to join up. After nearly a year of training in Newfoundland and the UK, Willie joined his battalion in France on November 6th 1917. Fourteen days later he was killed in action.
Commemorated on Page 79 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
Cemetery: MARCOING BRITISH CEMETERY, France
Grave Reference: II. G. 9.
Location: Marcoing is a village 7 kilometres south-west of Cambrai. The MARCOING BRITISH CEMETERY is 2 kilometres due east of the village on the D.15 towards Masnieres.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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