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| Lieutenant Edward Charrington MACKENZIE | |
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25th Pack Artillery Brigade, Indian Army Date of birth: 15th March 1898 Date of death: 16th May 1924 Killed on active service aged 26 Buried at Quetta Christian and Cantonment Cemetery |
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| Edward Charrington Mackenzie was born in Hackney on the 15th of March 1898 the son of Harman Mackenzie, an engineer and company director, and Mary (nee Charrington) Mackenzie of Mill Mead Cottage, Mill Mead near Guildford in Surrey and later of 73 Worple Road, Wimbledon. He was christened at St Thomas' Church, Clapton Common in Hackney on the 11th of April 1898. He was educated at Lancing College from September 1911 to April 1915 where he was in News House from September 1911 and in Fields House from September 1912. He was Corporal in the Officer Training Corps and was appointed as a House Captain in 1914. On leaving school he went on the Royal Military Academy Woolwich from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 27th of October 1915. He saw service with the 11th (Hull) Heavy Battery in East Africa from the 1st of February 1916 until the 31st of January 1918 when they returned to the UK, landing at Plymouth. The officers and men of the battery were then reorganised and re-designated as the 545th Siege Battery and saw service in France from the 12th of July 1918 although their guns didn't arrive until July 21st. They joined 2nd Army in the field on the 27th of July 1918 and served with it until the end of the war. He was posted to the 25th Pack Artillery Brigade, based at Quetta in India in 1919 and by 1924 he had been appointed as their Adjutant. On the 16th of May 1924 he took off from Quetta in Bristol Fighter D7821 of 20 Squadron, Royal Air Force, piloted by Flying Officer Edmund Cronin Ushers-Somers from the squadron. The aircraft stalled shortly after takeoff and crashed killing both men. |
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