ABSTRACT
Thomas McKenzie was born in 1830 at Gibraltar. His father was a soldier in the 94th Regiment of Foot, but thereafter transferred to the 64th Foot as the regiment’s master tailor. Thomas McKenzie was a boy soldier, enlisting in 1843 at Portsmouth. He served in Canada and India, becoming a drill sergeant in 1854. He fought in the 1856 war with Persia, and was part of Havelock’s relief column to Cawnpore. In the 1860s he returned to Canada, where much of his family had settled, and took his discharge. McKenzie remained in the militia, and from 1884 was a sergeant major at the Infantry Military School of Instruction at Fredericton.
