{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, Royal Navy, 22nd - 23rd April 1918.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.
SE1, Tower Bridge Road
McKenzie was born nearby and continued to live locally so this is a good site for the memorials.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Heroic Able Seaman. Born Alice Street, Bermondsey. He was on board HMS Vindic...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
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