Albert Edward McKenzie was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 19 years old, and a Able Seaman in the Royal Navy during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Able Seaman McKenzie was a member of a storming party on the night of the operation. He landed with his machine_gun in the face of great difficulties, advancing down the Mole with his commanding officer (Arthur Leyland Harrison) who with most of his party was killed. The seaman accounted for several of the enemy running for shelter to a destroyer alongside the Mole, and was severely wounded whilst working his gun in an exposed position.
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Award by ballot.
The medal
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Imperial War Museum(London, England).
Reference
Forgotten Hero: Story of Able-seaman Albert Mackenzie Victoria Cross (Philip Wilkinson, 1993)
Albert dies - AlbertMcKenzie VC - The Raid on Zeebrugge 1918
'In the special circumstances of Able Seaman AlbertEdwardMcKenzie's lamentable death and the fact of his being a VC and the first London sailor to receive that most honourable reward, you are authorised to express at the public funeral at St Mark's Camberwell the sympathy of their Majesties with the widowed mother and family.
Able Seaman McKenzie was selected by the seaman of the Vindictive Iris 11 and Daffodil and of the naval assaulting force to receive the Victoria Cross under rule 13 of the Royal Warrant dated 29th January 1856 (London Gazette 22 July 1918).
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