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Floyd Edwin MacKenzie Corporal F/45246 North Nova Scotia Highlanders May 18, 1921 Roachvale, Guysborough Co., NS July 1, 1940 Mulgrave, NS Roachvale, Guysborough Co., NS 19 6 Feet, 1 inch Medium Blue Light Single Farmer United Church Mildred MacKenzie (Mother) Roachvale, NS June 7, 1944 23 Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France XIII. G. 11 Commemorated on Page 373 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 8 Floyd Edwin MacKenzie was the son of Alexander Edward MacKenzie (d. 1938) and Mildred Sophia MacKenzie of Roachvale, NS. He was the brother of Alexander Cecil MacKenzie and Mildred Elizabeth MacKenzie. Floyd MacKenzie served in Canada from enlistment until July, 1941. He embarked Halifax for overseas on July 19, 1941 and disembarked in the United Kingdom on July 31, 1941. While serving in the United Kingdom he was appointed to the rank of Corporal on November 13, 1942. On June 6, 1944 Corporal MacKenzie disembarked in France with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. He was killed in action on June 7, 1944. Corporal MacKenzie is buried in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France.
Floyd Edwin MacKenzie
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Sources: findagrave Canadian Virtual War Memorial (photos: courtesy Christina (MacKenzie) Jones
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