D. K. A. MacKenzie
Appearance
Birth name | Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 30 November 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 12 June 1940 | (aged 23)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Donald Kenneth Andrew MacKenzie (30 November 1916 – 12 June 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]His home club was Edinburgh Wanderers.[2][3]
Provincial career
[edit]He was capped for Edinburgh District.[3]
International career
[edit]He played for Scotland twice at number eight in the 1939 Home Nations Championship.[2][4]
Death
[edit]He was the first Scottish rugby internationalist to be killed in World War II.[2] He died in June 1940 when his Spitfire crashed near Edinburgh during a training flight.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b c Bath, p109
- ^ a b "Edinburgh Break Inter-City Rugby Spell". The Herald. Glasgow. 5 December 1938.
- ^ Scrum.com player profile. Retrieved 20 February 2010
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
Categories:
- 1916 births
- 1940 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II
- Edinburgh Wanderers players
- Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
- Military personnel from Edinburgh
- Royal Air Force officers
- Rugby union players from Edinburgh
- Rugby union number eights
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs