Son of Marcus Murchison Mackenzie, and Irene Constance Mackenzie (nee Hall), of Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia.
~~Flight Sergeant Peter Murchison Mackenzie, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, World War Two~~
RAAF Service Number:--- 411469
Home Town:--- Darling Point, Woollahra, New South Wales
Enlisted:--- 28th April 1941 in Sydney, New South Wales.
Final Rank:--- Flight Sergeant
Final Unit:--- No. 460 Squadron, RAF Breighton, Yorkshire. (RAAF)
Fate:--- Died air operations in No. 460 Squadron Lancaster aircraft W4956, Baltic Sea, 20th April 1943.
Final Burial:--- Kiel War Cemetery, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Memorials:--- Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
Roll of Honour:--- Woollahra, New South Wales.
Remembered:--- Panel 108, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Details of final mission:--- Lancaster W4956 took off from RAF Breighton at 2135 hours on 20 April 1943 to bomb the port and U boat yards at Stettin, Poland. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Seventeen aircraft from the squadron took part in the raid. Following post war enquiries it was established that the body of Flight Sergeant MacKenzie had been washed ashore on the west coast of Fehmarn Island near Puttsee. It was assumed that the aircraft had crashed in the Baltic Sea east of the Fehmarn Island.
The crew members of W4956 were:
Sergeant Russell Jesse Chapman (1522573) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Ralph Edmund Dollar (416552) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Robert Samuel King (409146) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Peter Murchison MacKenzie (411469) (Bomb Aimer)
Flight Sergeant Walter Frank Pridgeon (409221) (Pilot)
Sergeant Frederick Albert Solly (1384232) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Sergeant Charles Albert Willis (1394695) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)