22nd Battalion
Killed In Action
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Percy McKenzie MM (SN 6862) was born in Mt Egerton, and on February 12th 1917, he enlisted in Ballarat. He was 22 years old, single and a labourer. He joined the 22nd Infantry Battalion and embarked in May on board the Ascanius. He was awarded the Military Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry under very heavy fire at LA BASSE VILLE on the night of 25th/26th March, 1918, when a member of a fighting patrol.’ On May 19th 1918 he was killed at Ville-sur-Ancre, and is buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery, France.
