Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: Comines-Warnetonhainaut
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Official Number: 8185
Unit: 2nd Bn. Scots Guards.
Country of Service: British
Details: V C 19th December 1914. Age 27. Son of Mrs. Marion Mackenzie of 22 Terregles St. Maxwelltown Dumfries. Panel 1. An extract from "The London Gazette dated 16th Feb., 1915, records the following:-For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs on the 19th Dec. in rescuing a severely wounded man from in front of the German trenches under a very heavy fire and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in the performance of a similar act of gallant conduct."
Photograph by Jean Michel Van Eslende