Mackenzie Murdoch Captain 67398
Personnel Entry
Name Mackenzie Murdoch
Army number 67398
Rank Captain
Decorations Service Awards. M.B.E.- gazetted 6/6/1946. Territorial Decoration and 1st Clasp gazetted 21/4/1950.
Date of birth 18/9/1909 at South Shields.
Age
Unit Commissioned in the Royal Artillery - date not yet ascertained but probably 1936. Served In Northern France with the B.E.F. Returned to the UK. Posted to 125th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Field Regiment converted to 125th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. Served Singapore 1942. Taken Prisoner of War by Japanese forces. Recovered from Japanese PoW Camp. Repatriated to the UK.
Company/Battery A Battery.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Probably Battery Commander.
Joined Brigade
Promotions Temporary Major. Relinquished Commission 11/2/1950 and granted the Honorary Rank of Major.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes. Captured Singapore 15/2/1942.
Died/Killed in action Died January 1983 - death registered in Newcastle upon Tyne Q1 1983.
Home address IN the 1911 he is listed as 1 year old and living with his parents - Murdoch and Euphemia Findlay MacKenzie at 73 Eglesfield Road, South Shields. In the 1921 Census he is listed as 11 years and 9 months old and living with both parents at 75 Eglesfield Road, South Shields. In the 1939 General Register his mother appears to be living at Aberfeldy, 47 Oxford Avenue, South Shields, while he was working in Sunderland as a Pharmacist.
Source table
Image taken from Regimental history.
We are grateful to James Pasby for his research using the British Newspaper Archive.
