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VC1333 John Bernard Mackey
Name John Bernard Mackey No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1333 Awards VC
Regiment Australian Military Forces, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Tarakan Island, Sulawesi Sea, off the coast of North Borneo
Buried/Location Ashes Labuan War Cemetery, small island in Brunei Bay, 2 miles from Victoria Township, Malaysia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot XXVII, Row C, Grave 9
Gazetted 8 November 1945
VC Presented 1 January 1946, Governor-General of Australia, Duke of Gloucester, Australia
Memorials
Headstone, Labuan War Cemetery, small island in Brunei Bay, 2 miles from Victoria Township, Malaysia
Named on Roll of Honour, Area 73, Australia War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Obelisk, RSL Building, Portland, NSW, Australia
Memorial Plaque, Leichhardt War Memorial, Pioneer's Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P VC Heroes Walk, Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Q, Australia
John Mackay VC Rest Area, Hume Highway, Moss Vale, NSW, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Memorial Plaque on Kokoda Memorial Walkway, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mackey Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Mackey Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia
By The Way…
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
BORN 16 May 1922
DIED 12 May 1945 AGE 24
VC Won 12 May 1945 AGE 24
Place VC Won Tarakan Island, Sulawesi Sea, North Borneo
War/Campaign Second World War
