3157 Private Edward Clarke McKenzie, 54th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Queensland 8th Reinforcements. From Oakwood, New South Wales, Australia. Brother of John Roderick Mckenzie of Ross Hill, Inverell, New South Wales. A grazier aged 22, unmarried, of Bonshaw, Inverell, New South Wales at enlistment on 2 Oct 1916. Embarked on 11 Nov 1916 at Sydney on HMAT Suevic A29. Disembarked at Cape Town on 20 Dec 1916 due to illness on route to England. Died of encephalitis at Valkenberg Mental Hospital, Cape Town (shown as a combination of septic laryngitis, septic pneumonia and septic memingitis on his Cape Town civil death record). Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.
Middle name spelt Clarke on CWGC website and in Australian military records but Clark on the grave.
Middle name spelt Clarke on CWGC website and in Australian military records but Clark on the grave.
3157 Private Edward Clarke McKenzie, 54th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Queensland 8th Reinforcements. From Oakwood, New South Wales, Australia. Brother of John Roderick Mckenzie of Ross Hill, Inverell, New South Wales. A grazier aged 22, unmarried, of Bonshaw, Inverell, New South Wales at enlistment on 2 Oct 1916. Embarked on 11 Nov 1916 at Sydney on HMAT Suevic A29. Disembarked at Cape Town on 20 Dec 1916 due to illness on route to England. Died of encephalitis at Valkenberg Mental Hospital, Cape Town (shown as a combination of septic laryngitis, septic pneumonia and septic memingitis on his Cape Town civil death record). Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.
Middle name spelt Clarke on CWGC website and in Australian military records but Clark on the grave.
Middle name spelt Clarke on CWGC website and in Australian military records but Clark on the grave.
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