Date: 27/01/2013
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TSM Kenneth Andrew Mackee
Rank: Troop Sergeant Major (later 2/Lieutenant)
Unit/Base: 6 Commando
Regiment/Corps: Royal Artillery and on commission Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Service Number: 929175 and 320790
Kenneth, from Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, was attested into the Royal Artillery in 1939 [1][1a].
Volunteered for the Commandos and attached to No.6 Commando [2][4].
26 February 1943 (Battle of Steamroller Farm) (Sergeant) wounded during operations in North Africa [2].
20 May 1944 commissioned Second Lieutenant, R.A.O.C. [3].
Post war member of the Commando Association (Staffordshire), final rank in the Commandos TSM [4].
Kenneth Andrew Mackee
b. 18.06.1909.
d. 23.10.1987.
Sources
[1] Royal Artillery Attestation Register for 1939.
[1a] The 1939 Register.
[2] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/58.
[3] London Gazette 36638, page 3613.
[4] Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 86 issued March 1988.
[Image credit] His son Gordon Mackee.