Four: Corporal R. McKenzie, Cameron Highlanders

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3683 L/Cpl. R. Mc.Kenzie 1/Cam: Hrs:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3683 Corl. R. McKenzie. 1: Cam’n: H’drs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3683 Serjt: R. Mc.Kenzie. Cameron Highrs:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, The Atbara (3683 Cpl. Mc.Kenzie 1 Cam. Highrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, light contact marks throughout, nearly very fine and better (4) £500-£700

Roderick McKenzie was born in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands in 1873, and attested for the 1st Cameron Highlanders at Inverness on 17 May 1895. A sawmiller by trade, he served overseas in Gibraltar, Cyprus and Egypt, and is confirmed upon his Army Service Record as present at the Nile Expedition of 1898 and the Battle of the Atbara where Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The 1st Cameron Highlanders suffered 44 casualties, including 3 officers killed and 1 wounded, with the engagement proving to be a turning point in the re-conquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition. Posted to South Africa from 25 April 1900 to 9 October 1902, McKenzie was discharged on 16 May 1907, after 12 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.