• Military Service: 2/4 PIONEERS BN, 1940 Jul 24 to 1942 Feb 2. ⁵ Service Record
Name MCKENZIE, WILLIAM DYCE
Service Australian Army
Service Number NX60535
Date of Birth 21 Jan 1907
Place of Birth INVERNESS, SCOTLAND
Date of Enlistment 24 Jul 1940
Locality on Enlistment BEGA, NSW
Place of Enlistment GOULBURN, NSW
Next of Kin MCKENZIE, VIOLET
Date of Discharge 2 Feb 1942 (Medically unfit)
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 2/4 PIONEERS BN
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No
Occupation '96 Farm Labourer
Marriage Status '96 Widower (No children?)
Father is Duncan McKenzie, 76 King Street, Inverness, Scotland.

• Military: Discharge, 1942 Feb 2, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia.

• Court: QUARTER SESSIONS SENTENCES, 1942 Sep 8. ⁶ QUARTER SESSIONS SENTENCES. (1942, September 8). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), p. 3. Retrieved February 10, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17803756>

William Dyce McKenzie, who pleaded guilty to having assaulted James Leslie Bannon at Paddington, was bound over for 12 months, and was ordered to pay £30 compensa- tion.

• Court: QUARTER SESSIONS DARLINGHURST, 1951 Nov 2. ⁶ LAW NOTICES FOR TO-DAY. (1951, November 2). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), p. 5. Retrieved February 10, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27532115>

QUARTER SESSIONS DARLINGHURST
No. 1 Court.-… Sentence: William Dyce McKenzie; Reginald Clive McIntosh. Jurors not required further.

• Newspaper: NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN ARSON CHARGE, 1951 Dec 14, Hay District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁷ NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN ARSON CHARGE. (1951, December 14). The Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW : 1873 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved August 12, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137337629>

NOT GUILTY VERDICT
IN ARSON CHARGE
The jury returned a verdict of
not guilty after hearing a charge
of arson against William Dyce
McKenzie, married labourer, in the
Hay Court of Quarter Sessions
before Judge Le Gay Brerton on
Tuesday.
McKenzie had been accused by
the Crown of maliciously setting
alight to a dwelling house owned
by Joseph Connor in Lindsay
Street, Hay, on October 30. Mc-
Kenzie pleaded not guilty and was
defended by Mr. H. J. Cunning-
ham, of the Crown Solicitor's Of-
fice.
Mr. D. F. Kelly, who prosecuted
for the Crown, told the jury that
there was no doubt that the house
was set on fire deliberately. It
was no accident that it caught on
fire at the time.
The Prosecutor said that the
peculiar thing about the circum-
stances of the incident was that
the accused said he did not know
what happened. He told the police
that he may well have set the
house on fire, but he did not re-
member whether he did it or not.
'It is known,' Mr. Kelly said,
'that late on October 29 McKenzie
went to the Riverina Hostel and
shouted abusive language at his
wife who was employed there. He
shouted at her that he would 'get
her.'
At this time, Mrs. McKenzie had
some goods stored at the Connor
house and her husband knew this.
Later that part of the house where
these goods were stored was burnt.
'Questioned by the police, Mc-
Kenzie could not say whether he
had been at the hostel or near the
Connor house. He told them he
had slept the night in the boiler
room at the Commercial Hotel.
'It was significant,' Mr. Kelly
added, 'that when seen the follow-
ing morning, there was no sign of
any dust on his clothes from the
floor of the boiler room which was
alleged to be covered with a fine
grey ash.
Evidence was given by Constable
J. Maguire of an alleged threat
made by McKenzie to burn Con-
nor's house down. The constable
said that he went to the fire, but
did not see McKenzie there.
REMEMBERED NOTHING
A statement made by the ac-
cused to police the day following
the fire was read to the jury. In
this McKenzie insisted that he re-
membered nothing of what he did
on the night of the fire.
He said the last thing he re-
membered was buying some fish
and a bottle of wine and going to
the Commercial Hotel boiler room
to sleep. He woke there at dawn.
From the dock, McKenzie said:
'I have no recollection of anything
that night. As far as I know
did not set fire to the place.'

• Registration: Death, 1964, Hay District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁸ 13803/1964
MCKENZIE, WILLIAM DYCE
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN
HAY

William married Violet Marjorie Ellen Cramp [26349] [LCM6-H8K] [MRIN: 10040], daughter of Edmund Thomas Frank Cramp [15633] [LCM6-475] and Mary Anne Edith Adelaide Sterns [26338] [LCM6-4HN], on 1940 Dec 11 in Goulburn District, New South Wales, Australia.¹ (Violet Marjorie Ellen Cramp [26349] [LCM6-H8K] was born on 1900 Jul 1 in Tamworth, Inglis County, New South Wales ⁹ and died on 1951 Sep 20 in Newtown District, New South Wales, Australia ¹⁰.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marraige, 1940, Goulburn District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹¹ 28581/1940
MCKENZIE, WILLIAM DYCE
CRAMP, VIOLET MARJORIE ELLEN
GOULBURN

• Divorce papers: Divorce papers Violet Marjorie Ellen McKenzie - William Dyce McKenzie, 1944 Mar 8 to 1946 Sep 4. ¹² Item number or control symbol:768/1944
Title:Divorce papers Violet Marjorie Ellen McKenzie - William Dyce McKenzie
Start date:08 Mar 1944
End date:04 Sep 1946

• Newspaper: LAW NOTICES, 1945 Nov 7, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹³ LAW NOTICES. (1945, November 7). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27924469>
…
IN DIVORCE.
…
nolly: V. M. E. McKenzie v W. D. McKen-
zie: M. E. Booth v A. H. Booth: A. R.
…

William next married Grace Elizabeth Stewart [34121] [MRIN: 12776].

William next married Elsie May Hilder [38042] [MTVD-978] [MRIN: 14465], daughter of Geroge Valentine Hilder [38046] [LZJR-6XH] and Isabella Grace Athorn [38047] [KCW3-G98], about 1933 in <Victoria, Australia>. (Elsie May Hilder [38042] [MTVD-978] was born in 1906 in Cobden, , Victoria, Australia and died about 1936 Jun 11 in Colac, , Victoria, Australia.)