Service Details
Name:
 MACKENZIE
Given Name:
 ERIC LOFTS
Initials:
 E L
Service No:
 188244
Rank:
 Lieutenant Colonel
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Regiment:
 South African Medical Corps
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Date of Death:
 1942-12-19
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Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Lockheed Lodestar 18-08 #248. Crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Kisumu Airport (KIS). The airplane came down in Kavirondo Gulf, Lake Victoria. It appeared that the undercarriage could not be raised after takeoff because of an electrical failure in the under-carriage safety lock circuit. The Lodestar was returning to South Africa from Cairo, Egypt.
Decorations:
 D S O, M C
Citations:
 DSO LG Sup 9 September 1942 pg. 3948, MC (with RAMC in WW1) LG Sup 1 January 1917 pg. 37
Additional
Information:
Husband of N. Mackenzie, of Germiston.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 L. 4.

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