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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 511

The impressive K.B.E., C.B., St. John group of thirteen awarded to Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir K. A. I. Mackenzie, Royal Navy, Medical Director-General of the Royal Navy and later Assistant Managing Director of Arthur Guinness

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) 2nd Type, Knight Commander's set of Insignia, comprising neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast Star, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Commander's neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace's set of Insignia, comprising neck Badge, silver and enamel; Star, silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. K. A. I. Mackenzie. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, the last ten mounted as worn, traces of adhesive to reverse of the C.B., generally good very fine (15)

K.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1953.

C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1951.

Knight of St John London Gazette 1 January 1957.

Keneth Alexander Ingleby Mackenzie was born on 19 August 1892 and educated at Repton, Trinity College, Oxford, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (B.A. 1914, B.M., B.Ch., Oxon, 1916; M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., 1917; Willett Medal for operative surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1916).

He joined the Royal Navy Medical Service in 1916 and served in the Grand Fleet, 1916-18. During the Second World War he served as Fleet Medical Officer in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Far East Fleets, being promoted to Surgeon Captain in 1942. He was Senior Medical Officer, Medical Section, R.N. Hospital, Haslar, from 1944-47, and Medical Officer-in-Charge of the R.N. Hospital at Chatham from 1948-52. He was appointed Honorary Physician to the King, and promoted to Surgeon Rear-Admiral in 1948, and to Surgeon Vice-Admiral in 1952. He held the appointment as Honorary Physician to the Queen, and as Medical Director-General of the Navy, from 1952 until his retirement from the Navy in 1956.

After his retirement from the Royal Navy he was appointed Assistant Managing Director of the brewing company Arthur Guinness, Son & Co. Ltd. in 1956, and held that position until his death on 17 January 1961. The Vice-Admiral was a member of White's, Union, Marylebone Cricket Club and at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon). He had played hockey for the Royal Navy in 1925, 1928 and 1929 and was also known to have been a very fine tennis player.

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Starting price
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