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Son of Donald and Mary MacKenzie.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Alex MacKenzie served in WWl in France as a driver and at the front. Although he had trained as a teacher, he preferred the outdoors and engaged in farming, logging and other occupations that involved physical labour. His nephew remembers him as a very strong man. Post war, he and two friends canoed from Fort George, British Columbia to The Pas Manitoba, carrying even a cast iron stove.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Alex MacKenzie and his sister, Grace. He was a shy man and never married. Family members received long letters from him detailing his adventures.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Letter received by family from Army Chaplin.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Alex deducted four years from his age when he enlisted in Vancouver in 1940. He could have served behind the lines, but chose to enter the fighting and died three days after D-Day.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Alexander MacKenzie's grave marker at Bretteville-sur-Laize, France
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander MacKenzie
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander MacKenzie
Private Alexander MacKenzie is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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Private Alexander MacKenzie
From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Alex MacKenzie served in WWl in France as a driver and at the front. Although he had trained as a teacher, he preferred the outdoors and engaged in farming, logging and other occupations that involved physical labour. His nephew remembers him as a very strong man. Post war, he and two friends canoed from Fort George, British Columbia to The Pas Manitoba, carrying even a cast iron stove.
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Alex MacKenzie and his sister, Grace. He was a shy man and never married. Family members received long letters from him detailing his adventures.
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Letter received by family from Army Chaplin.
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Alex deducted four years from his age when he enlisted in Vancouver in 1940. He could have served behind the lines, but chose to enter the fighting and died three days after D-Day.
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Alexander MacKenzie's grave marker at Bretteville-sur-Laize, France
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Alexander MacKenzie is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 373 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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