Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Sapper F. L. McKenzie, South African Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘133894 F. L. McKenzie’, good very fine and better (5) £100-120

Fonnereau Lauriston McKenzie was born in September 1915 and enlisted in the South African Engineers in June 1940, with whom he served in East Africa from the following month until December 1941, and was mentioned in despatches ‘for distinguished services’ in the period February to July 1941 (London Gazette 30 December 1941 refers). Next actively employed in Madagasgar from November 1942 to July 1943, he was transferred to Egypt in early 1944 and thence to Italy, and was finally discharged in August 1945.