Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Alexander MacKenzie
In memory of:
Private Alexander MacKenzie
June 9, 1944
Military Service
K/57810
52
Army
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Additional Information
May 5, 1892
Port Albert, Ontario
Son of Donald and Mary MacKenzie.
Commemorated on Page 373 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France
XXVI. G. 4.
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Grave Marker – Alexander MacKenzie's grave marker at Bretteville-sur-Laize, France -
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Photo of Alexander MacKenzie – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Alexander MacKenzie – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Attestation paper – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Telegram – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial – Private Alexander MacKenzie is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Memorial – This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of ALEXANDER MACKENZIE – Alex MacKenzie served in WWl in France as a driver and at the front. Although he had trained as a teacher, he preferred the outdoors and engaged in farming, logging and other occupations that involved physical labour. His nephew remembers him as a very strong man. Post war, he and two friends canoed from Fort George, British Columbia to The Pas Manitoba, carrying even a cast iron stove. -
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Photo of ALEXANDER MACKENZIE – Alex MacKenzie and his sister, Grace. He was a shy man and never married. Family members received long letters from him detailing his adventures. -
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Letter – Letter received by family from Army Chaplin. -
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Photo of ALEXANDER MACKENZIE – Alex deducted four years from his age when he enlisted in Vancouver in 1940. He could have served behind the lines, but chose to enter the fighting and died three days after D-Day.
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