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Information from Paul Burke, 19 June 2013:- -John Baird McAlister was born in Tapanui, Otago, NZ, in 1885. His parents were Scottishh immigrants to NZ from Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was also John Baird McAlister and his mother Mary McAlister, nee Turnbull. -at some point...
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Strangely enough, there were two John Archibald McColls, who both enlisted in 1915. Both were under twenty at the time. The first John Archibald McColl, 4260, was born in Kyneton and at the time of enlistment, was still living there, and working with his father as a butcher. He e...
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Garnet Frederick Binge was born on 24 November, 1896, the son of Henry Morris McCormack (d. 1927) and Caroline Katie, nee Binge (d. 1945). He was nineteen years and 11 months old when he enlisted on 25 October, 1916, and identified his job as motor driver. He had served 2 years i...
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Ernest Alfred McCure was born in Colac on 12 October 1893. He was the son of Alfred Ernest McCure and his wife, Clara Eve, nee Coney. In 1914 the family moved to Ararat where his father was a veterinary surgeon, and was the first to discover an outbreak of anthrax in Australia. H...
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Alexander McDonaldwas a 21 year old orphan and he enlisted on October 9, 1917. His address was Gembrook - C/o Mr Pitt, Farmer, Gembrook. He had no next of kin on enlistment but that was later changed to Charlotte Buchanan of Gembrook, whom he listed as his aunt. He was sent to Br...
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Alexander Michael McDonald was born on 27 November. 1896, to Michael Alexander McDonald and his Belgian wife, Elise Flora Marie Hartrive. He had one sister, Gladys Flora, born in 1898. His father died in 1908. amd at the time he enlisted, on 23 January, 1917, he was living with h...
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Benjamin James McDonald was 18 years and 9 months old when he enlisted to serve in the Great War. He was under age, but the authoritites accepted his application without dispute. In his enlistment form, he wrote that both his parents were dead and gave his next of kin as his sist...
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Frank McEvoy was born in 1893, son of Charles E. McEvoy, of Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, 1906-11 and was chosen to play in the First XV111. Following school, he was employed by Goldsborough Mort & Co. for twelve months and then a...
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Malcolm John McGregor was born on 19 June, 1886. His parents,were Alexander Malcolm McGregor and Elizabeth Lilian McGregor, nee Rutherford. He was the eldest of four children born to the couple: Malcolm (1886), then Ernest (1889-1917), Robert (1891-1891), and Beatrice (1893 -?)....
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Kenneth Fraser McKenzie was the only living son of Mrs. Marjorie Jane Fraser McKenzie, a widow, and her late husband George Kenneth McKenzie. He was brother to seven sisters: Margaret, Lila, Flora,Sara, Jane. Another son, Daniel, had died at two years of age. Mrs. McKenzie and he...
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William Maurice McKenzie aged 37 enlisted on th 17 August 1914 and joined the 2nd Infantry Brigade 6th Battalion AIEF with the SERN 26 Attestation paper informs he was from Melbourne East, unmarried and unstated next of kin William was a Telephone Repairer being 5 feet 8 & 1/2 in...
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Thomas McKeon was a student of Divinity and living at Vermont, Victoria, when he enlisted for the war on 23 October, 19015. Born at Enniscorthy in Ireland, his enlistment application identified both parents as dead, and no siblings. For his next of kin, he gave his wife, Stella A...
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Bertha McKinnell (1879–1963) was the youngest of five children (four daughters, one son) born to Francis McKinnell (c1839–1904) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Donnolly/Donnelly) (c1843–1927). Francis McKinnell was the son of Charles McKinnell, a Scottish born wine merchant in London....
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Mary McKinnon (1885–1979) born in Marnoo, Victoria, the third of seven children born to Godfrey McKinnon (1847–1934) and his second wife Margaret (nee Patience) (c1851–1916). Mary’s forebears on both sides were Scottish highlanders. Her father Godfrey had come from the Isle of Sk...
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William McLauchlan enlisted on 19 August, 1914. He was 26 years old, single and working as a tailor at 130 McKillop St., Geelong. He had been born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland and cited 7 years military experience with the Black Watch (3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotl...
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George Reginald Albert McLeod was born in Northcote in May 1896 and enlisted to serve in the war in 1914, when he was just twenty years and three months old. His father, George Frederick McLeod, a civil servant,was then living at 'Airlie', 314 Albert St., East Melbourne with his...
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Oswald McLeod was the son of George Frederick McLeod and his wife, Elizabeth Derippe Williams.He was 18 years old when he enlisted and had to have the permission of his parents to sign up. At the time he enlisted, he was working on a farm at Elmore, Victoria, but had two years wo...
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James McMahon was 38 years and three months old when he enlisted on 17 October, 1916.He was born in Clunes, Victoria, the son of Patrick McMahon (1859-1914) and his wife Hannorah, nee Savage (1854-1904). He had one brother, John Ignatius McMahon, b. 1892. By trade, he wrote that...
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Ronald Mc Millan was the elder son of Malcolm Reginald Mc Millan and his wife Jane. They lived at 230 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, and he gave this as his home address. He was only nineteen years of age and working as a clerk when he enlisted on 17 August, 1914, virtually as so...
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Andrew McNiven enlisted on 29 September, 1916. He was the son of David McNiven, Cheltenham House, Cheltenham, Victoria, and gave as his address 226 Clarendon St., East Melbourne. By trade, he was a draper, an occupation he maintained post-war. He was a single man, aged 31 and 11...
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John McPherson was working as a farm hand when he enlisted on 5 July, 1915. Born in Richmond, Victoria, he ws the son of John McPherson, a carpenter, and his late wife, Mary. Father and son were living at 20A Hotham St., East Melbourne in 1915. John gave his occupation on his enl...
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In 1895, James Wallace McPhillamy was born into a pioneering family near Albury, his father being John Sydney McPhillamy , a grazier, and mother Annie Mary Josephine Serong. At the time of his enlistment on 9 February, 1917, John was working as an Overseer, possibly on the family...
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In 1883, Ronald Murray McPhillamy was born into a pioneering family around Albury, his father being John Sydney McPhillamy, a grazier, and mother Annie Mary Josephine Serong. In 1914 Ronald married Doris Claudia Gilroy in Victoria and was likely to be living in the country as whe...
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Abbott Halford John McQuinn joined up to the military on 29 June 1918. He claimed to be 21 years and 4 months old and born on 25 February 1897 in Sydney, though his birth was also recorded as Launceston, Tasmania in 1892. He was the son of John Jacob Wallace McQuinn and his wife...