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Sgt. William Thomas McKenzie
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
from:Bray, Co. Wicklow
(d.23rd July 1943)
Sergeant William McKenzie was the son of Alexander and Emma McKenzie, of Bray. He was aged 29 when he died and is buried in the Powerscourt (St. Patrick) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. He was accidentally killed by walking in the dark into the moving blades of one of the propellers of a Vickers Wellington Bomber at Silloth, Cumbria, England. The plane had just returned from a night training exercise.