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VC994   Albert Edward McKenzie

Name    Albert Edward McKenzie  No.      ELECTED BY BALLOT

VC Issue No.   994   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Royal Navy

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Able Seaman

Rank End Of Career   Able Seaman

Place Of Birth   10 Alice Street, Bermondsey, South London, England

Place Of Death   Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, Kent, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road, London, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   9 November 1918

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Square 85, Grave 25538

Gazetted   23 July 1918

VC Presented   31 July 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road, London, England

P  Named on War Memorial, Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road, South London

P  Statue, Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey, South London

P  McKenzie House, Barleycroft Road, Portland, Dorset

P  McKenzie Road, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

Another to survive his VC action but to pass away from Spainish Flu. He was buried two days before the Armistice.

VC Held By

I.W.M. /Lord Ashcroft Collection

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BORN     23 October 1898

DIED   3 November 1918  AGE   20

VC Won   22-23 April 1918   AGE   19

Place VC Won    Zeebrugge, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1918