LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth George McKENZIE
Service No: 402101
Born: Sydney NSW, 16 July 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 May 1940
Unit: No. 99 Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, near Findlay NSW, 12 December 1945, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Tocumwal General Cemetery NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Adelaide Agnes McKenzie, of Burwood
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 104, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 12 December 1945, Flight Lieutenant McKenzie, Observer, died from injuries in a motor accident near Findlay, New South Wales. The accident occurred when a jeep in which he was travelling overturned late at night while avoiding an unlighted vehicle parked on the roadway. The RAAF members involved in the accident were:
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Douglas Gray DFC (401943) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 March 1946
Flight Lieutenant Stuart Reginald Hooper DFC (408844) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 4 March 1946
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth George McKenzie (402101)
Flight Lieutenant Charles Peter Wood DFC DFC (416641) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 21 January 1946
Flight Lieutenant Ronald Alvah Ellison Wright (408604) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 18 December 1945
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/14/527
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line