Jocks service records are on the Archives but they haven't been digitised yet ! FULL NAME - Richard John McKenzie FORENAME(S) - Richard John SURNAME - McKenzie WAR - World War I, 1914-1918 SERIAL NO. - 28594 FIRST KNOWN RANK - Sergeant OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT - Farmer NEXT OF KIN - Mrs M. Hooper (mother), Grey Street, Hamilton East, New Zealand BODY ON EMBARKATION - New Zealand Expeditionary Force EMBARKATION UNIT - 20th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company EMBARKATION DATE - 7 December 1916 PLACE OF EMBARKATION - Wellington, New Zealand TRANSPORT - HMNZT 71 VESSEL - Port Lyttelton DESTINATION - Plymouth, England NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER - 47 PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL - 1
McKenzie, Richard John ‘Jock’ played for New Zealand Internationals: 4 : 1913 A+ (2t) US+ (2t) ; 1914 A+ A+ (1t) Richard McKenzie was born on 15 March 1892 in Lytttelton. Played as a Second and First Five-Eighth forSt Patrick’s College Wellington, Petone, Wellington, Marist, Auckland, North Island Profession: Licensee/farmer War service: 28594, Sergeant, NZEF; badly wounded. Believed to have subsequently represented Waikato at Hockey. Waikato selector 1937 and 1938. He died on 25 September 1968 at Mt Maunganui
