Aubrey MacKenzie

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Aubrey MacKenzie

| image = Aubrey MacKenzie (before 1924).jpg

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| fullname = Aubrey Duckworth MacKenzie

| birth_date = 23 October 1894

| birth_place = Durban, South Africa

| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|7|15|1894|10|23|df=yes}}

| death_place = near Broadford, Victoria{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102265123 |title=Shocking Accident |newspaper=The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express |location=NSW |date=21 July 1933 |accessdate=27 May 2014 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}

| originalteam = Brunswick Juniors

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| statsend = 1924

| years1 = 1914

| club1 = Melbourne

| games_goals1 = {{0}}2 (0)

| years2 = 1922–1924

| club2 = St Kilda

| games_goals2 = 35 (8)

| games_goalstotal = 37 (8)

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Aubrey Duckworth MacKenzie (23 October 1894 – 15 July 1933) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A Brunswick junior, MacKenzie appeared twice for Melbourne in the 1914 VFL season before enlisting in the armed forces and serving during the war.{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/A/Aubrey_MacKenzie.html| title=Aubrey MacKenzie| publisher=AFL Tables}}{{cite web|url=http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/Details.aspx?barcode_no=1962675&TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=600 |title=Aubrey MacKenzie |publisher=Mapping our Anzacs |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706122048/http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/Details.aspx?barcode_no=1962675&TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=600 |archivedate=6 July 2011 }}

MacKenzie was a member of Footscray's 1919 and 1920 Victorian Football Association premiership sides when he returned from the war and signed with St Kilda for the 1922 season.{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/aubrey%2Bmackenzie/3270|title=Aubrey MacKenzie – Player Bio| publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=14 August 2015}} The South African born ruckman spent three years with St Kilda and helped turn a struggling outfit into a winning team.{{cite book|last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=978-1-920910-78-5}}

In 1931, McKenzie was elected as President of the Corowa Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League. He also acted as their football coach in 1931, as a volunteer, receiving no remuneration.{{cite web |title=1931 - Corowa FC appoint coach |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236184055 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Corowa Free Press |accessdate=6 April 2020 |date=3 April 1931|page=5}}

MacKenzie died on 15 July 1933, when he was beheaded in a motor vehicle accident near Broadford, Victoria.{{cite web |title=1931 - McKenzie killed in motor tragedy |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245417144 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Herald |accessdate=6 April 2020 |date=17 July 1933|page=5}}

He was survived by his wife, Lillian, and his two children, Audrey and Maxie.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4749251 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=18 July 1933 |accessdate=28 December 2010 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}