- SURNAME
Menzies
- FORENAME
Duncan Campbell
- UNIT
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment),attached 13 Bn King's Regiment (Liverpool)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
182309
- DATE OF DEATH
4th April 1943
- AGE
24
- GRAVESITE
Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar Face 14
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 07.01.1919 Clare, South Australia, Australia
son of Captain Duncan (1880-1944) and Joan Menzies (1886-1964), Adelaide, South Australia
graduated University of Adelaide (St Peter's College)
Rhodes Scholar for South Australia 1939
Balliol College, Oxford
Black Watch (Private)
2 Bn Black Watch (C Company) (Lt) 1942
Adjutant of No 5 Column
award M.C. (posthumous)
WIA and POW
DOW Burma
London Gazette 36287, 14th December 1943, Page 5473
DATE OF DEATH:
04-Apr-1943AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/menzies-duncan-campbell.39035/CITATION:
Military Cross : Lieut. MENZIES was Adjutant of No. 5 Column. At the cutting of the railway at and south of BONCHAUNG on 6th March 43, he was in charge of the main demolition at BONCHAUNG railway station for the first hour of the work, while his Column Commander was involved in a skirmish elsewhere. Owing to enemy activity, he had had to lead the Column by a difficult route across mountains, a journey accomplished in a very short space of time. At HINTHA on 28th March 43, he remained for half an hour in an exposed position by himself, keeping the enemy off with grenades and calling back with accurate information about their movements with a fine disregard of danger. Throughout the campaign he set a high example of efficiency, cheerfulness and devotion to duty. Of great physical powers of endurance his energy never flagged; and at the end of the most trying march he was tireless and possessed of extraordinary reserves of strength. He was easily the most skilful jungle navigator in the Column, which he would lead for hours without relief cutting a track as he went. Utterly fearless in action and an unbending disciplinarian who exacted his own high standards from everybody, he commanded the confidence and affection of every man in the column.
WEB LINKS:
• https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7364170• https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36287/supplement/5473
FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17786189/duncan-campbell-menzies
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