Rugby player
Birth name | Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1916-11-30)30 November 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 12 June 1940(1940-06-12) (aged 23) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- "Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Bath, p109
- ^ "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)
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- 1916 births
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- 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
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- Rugby union players from Edinburgh
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