Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC GUARDSMAN DOUGLAS JOHN McKENZIE Service Number: 2701058 Regiment & Unit: Scots Guards, 2nd Bn. Date of Death: Died 30 January 1944 Age 21 years old Buried or commemorated at CASSINO MEMORIAL Memorial Reference: Panel 4. Location: Italy Additional Info: Son of Thomas and Mabel McKenzie, of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.
Curiously the Roll of Honour in the Scots Guards History has noted Guardsman D.J. McKenzie as a member of the 1st Battalion at the time of his death in Italy. Furthermore this Roll does not distinguish between KIA or DOW etc. On the 30th January the 1st Battalion were participating in an unsuccessful Night Attack alongside 1IG; the Brigade objective being Campoleone. Remembering Today 30/1/44 Guardsman:Harold Wignall,2696339,Scots Guards 1st Bn. On the same date the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards took over and started to settle into positions west and below Trimonsuoli which had formerly been occupied by the Coldstream Guards. Guardsman Douglas John McKenzie, born in SW London, resident of Dumfries Nemo Me Impune Lacessit