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NX20317 CORPORAL JOHN BERNARD MACKEY VC, 2/3RD PIONEER BATTALION, AIF. CORPORAL MACKEY WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS FOR BRAVERY ON 1945-05-12 DURING AN ATTACK ON THREE JAPANESE POSITIONS AT A FEATURE KNOWN AS HELEN, EAST OF TARAKAN, BORNEO. MACKEY MANAGED TO SILENCE THE POSITIONS BUT WAS KILLED WHILST ATTACKING THE THIRD.
PORTRAIT OF CORPORAL (CPL) JOHN BERNARD MACKEY VC. IN THE AUSTRALIAN ATTACK ON A FEATURE KNOWN AS HELEN, EAST OF TARAKAN, NORTH BORNEO, A SECTION OF THE 2/3RD AUSTRALIAN PIONEER BATTALION WAS LED BY C
The original grave and early grave marker of NX20317 Corporal (Cpl) John Bernard Mackey (later VC), 2/3 Australian Pioneer Battalion (Pnr Bn). A baker's labourer from Leichhardt, NSW, Mackey enlisted
TARAKAN ISLAND. 1945-05. THE APPROACH TO THE FIRST POSITION ATTACKED BY NX20317 CORPORAL J. B. MACKEY, VC, AND A SECTION OF D COMPANY, 2/3RD PIONEER BATTALION ON 1945-05-12 WHEN HE WON HIS POSTHUMOUS
TARAKAN ISLAND, 1945-05. THE RAZOR BACKED RIDGE OVER WHICH NX20317 CORPORAL J. B. MACKEY, VC, LED HIS SECTION OF D COMPANY, 2/3RD PIONEER BATTALION DURING THE ACTION WHICH WON HIM HIS POSTHUMOUS VICTO
TARAKAN ISLAND, 1945-05. THE FIRST JAPANESE POSITION ATTACKED BY NX20317 CORPORAL J. B. MACKEY, VC, AND HIS SECTION OF D COMPANY, 2/3RD PIONEER BATTALION DURING THE ACTION WHICH WON HIM HIS POSTHUMOUS
TARAKAN ISLAND, 1945-05. THE SECOND JAPANESE POSITION ATTACKED BY NX20317 CORPORAL J. B. MACKEY, VC, AND HIS SECTION OF D COMPANY, 2/3RD PIONEER BATTALION DURING THE ACTION WHICH WON HIM HIS POSTHUMOU
