Stanley McKenzie
{{short description|Australian rules footballer and cricketer}}
{{other people}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
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| image =
| fullname = Matthew Stanley McKenzie
| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|5|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Launceston, Tasmania
| death_date = {{death date and age|1915|12|8|1890|5|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = {{HMHS|Gloucester Castle}}, Alexandria, Egypt
| originalteam = Launceston
| height = 184 cm
| weight = 77 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1914
| years1 = 1914
| club1 = Carlton
| games_goals1 = 14 (6)
| careerhighlights =
}}
Matthew Stanley McKenzie (17 May 1890 – 8 December 1915) was an Australian first-class cricketer and Australian rules footballer.
Family
The son of Henry McKenzie (1850–1929), and Jane Danks McKenzie, née Young, Matthew Stanley McKenzie was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 17 May 1890.
His brother, George Frank McKenzie (1892-), was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1915.[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C268888 Distinguished Conduct Medal: Sapper G F McKenzie, 3 Field Company Engineers, AIF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202094243/https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C268888 |date=2 December 2022 }}, Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
Education
He was educated at Scotch College, Launceston.Roll of Honour Circular.
Cricket
A right-handed opening batsman, he played five first-class matches for Tasmania between 1910 and 1913.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2634/2634.html| title = Stanley McKenzie | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 6 June 2013}}
Football
McKenzie was also an accomplished footballer, and he represented Tasmania at the 1911 Adelaide Carnival. He played club football for Launceston in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association in the early 1910s. He was part of the team which forfeited the 1913 Tasmanian State Premiership match, and he along with team-mates were consequently issued amateur sports suspensions by the Tasmanian Football League, which became a major off-field dispute between Northern Tasmania and Southern Tasmania in the months that followed.{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Times|publication-place=Sydney, NSW|page=32|date=28 December 1913|title=Athletic Chaos in Tasmania}} In the fall-out, when McKenzie was selected by the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association (which refused to recognise the validity of the suspension) to play for the North XI in an intrastate cricket match against the South XI team in December 1913, the South called off the match.{{cite news|newspaper=Examiner|title=North v. South match|date=13 December 1913|page=5|publication-place=Launceston, TAS}}
He moved to Victoria at the start of 1914, and joined both the Carlton Football Club and the Carlton Cricket Club. His senior VFL career with Carlton did not begin until June 1914,{{cite news|newspaper=Zeehan and Dundas Herald|title=Football: an ex-Tasmanian|date=19 May 1914|page=3}} when the dispute in Tasmania had ended and his suspension was lifted. He played 14 VFL games for the year, including a Preliminary Final, but he was omitted from the winning 1914 Grand Final team on form.{{cite news|newspaper=The Australasian|title=Football: the Grand Final|date=3 October 1914|page=757|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|issue=2531|volume=XCVII}} McKenzie's final game for Carlton was in the 1914 Championship of Australia match against {{AFL Por}}.{{cite news|newspaper=Daily Herald|title=Champions of Australia|date=5 October 1914|page=2|publication-place=Adelaide, SA}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.blueseum.org/1914+Championship+of+Australia |title=1914 Championship of Australia, Blueseum. |access-date=24 December 2024 |archive-date=24 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724104416/https://blueseum.org/1914+Championship+of+Australia |url-status=live }}
Military service
McKenzie enlisted with the First AIF (on 17 November 1914) as a medical orderly. He was a Sergeant with the 1st Australian Clearing Hospital, First A.I.F., and spent some time at Gallipoli before being moved to Alexandria in Egypt.
Death
He died of appendicitis on the hospital ship HMHS Gloucester Castle, in Alexandria Harbour, Egypt, on 8 December 1915,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page3109413 Deaths: McKenzie, The Launceston Examiner, (Monday, 27 December 1915), p.1.] and was buried at the Alexandria (Chatby) Military Cemetery.
See also
Footnotes
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References
- Main, J. & Allen, D., "McKenzie, Stan", pp. 125–128 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. {{ISBN|1-74095-010-0}}
- [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067592/large/5373409.JPG World War One Embarkation Roll: Private Matthew Stanley McKenzie (1459)], Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
- [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=1950510&D=D World War One Service Record: Sergeant Matthew Stanley McKenzie (1459), National Archives of Australia.]
- [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1650022 Roll of Honour: Sergeant Matthew Stanley McKenzie (1459)], Australian War Memorial.
- [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068881/document/5579780.PDF Roll of Honour Circular: Sergeant Matthew Stanley McKenzie (1459)], Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
- [https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109356/mckenzie,-matthew-stanley Sergeant Matthew Stanley McKenzie (1459)], Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2111848 Australian Casualties: 129th List Issued: Died of Illness: Tasmania: Sgt. M. S. McKenzie, The Argus, (Tuesday, 4 January 1916), p.8.]
- [http://www.tasmanianwarcasualties.com/War%20Casualties/WW1/Notes/Surnames%20M/McKenzie,%20Matthew%20Stanley.htm Matthew Stanley McKenzie], at Tasmanian War Casualties.
External links
- {{AFL Tables | S/Stan_McKenzie1 }}
- [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Stan+McKenzie Blueseum Biography: Stan McKenzie]
- [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2634/2634.html CricketArchive profile]
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