Mountbatten's request for distinctive head-dress for the Special Service Bde. dated 1st May 1942
Date: 16/04/2012
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Lieutenant Gordon Malachy Crawford McKenzie
Lieutenant Gordon McKenzie, seconded to the RM Commandos, died during operations at Walcheren, Holland. From June 1944 he had been attached to 41RM Commando. Lieutenant McKenzie has no known grave but is remembered on the Groesbeek Memorial, the Memorial at Domburg, and also on the War Memorial at East London, South Africa, where he was born.
[Photo courtesy of his nephew Graham McKenzie].