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Scotland international rugby union player

Rugby player
Donald Mackenzie
Birth nameDonald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie
Date of birth(1916-11-30)30 November 1916
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of death12 June 1940(1940-06-12) (aged 23)
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Number 8
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Edinburgh Wanderers ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Edinburgh District ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1939 Scotland 2 (0)

Donald Kenneth Andrew MacKenzie (30 November 1916 – 12 June 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

His home club was Edinburgh Wanderers.

Provincial career

He was capped for Edinburgh District.

International career

He played for Scotland twice at number eight in the 1939 Home Nations Championship.

Death

He was the first Scottish rugby internationalist to be killed in World War II. He died in June 1940 when his Spitfire crashed near Edinburgh during a training flight.

See also

References

  1. "Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ Bath, p109
  3. ^ "Edinburgh Break Inter-City Rugby Spell". The Herald. Glasgow. 5 December 1938.
  4. Scrum.com player profile. Retrieved 20 February 2010
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)


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