Alexander Gair CORMACK

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CORMACK, Alexander Gair

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	3 March 1916, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wick, Scotland, 4 August 1879
Home Town:	North Ryde, Ryde, New South Wales
Schooling:	West Banks Public School, Wick, Scotland
Occupation:	Builder
Died:	Killed In Action, France, 23 August 1918, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	Heath Cemetery, Picardie INSCRIPTION - THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY OUR HERO DADDY Grave V. J. 14.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

3 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, Liverpool, New South Wales
1 Apr 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Makarini embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
1 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, SS Makarini, Sydney
23 Aug 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, 3rd Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Captain awm_died_date: 1918-08-23

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

3rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

He was 39 and the son of David and Elizabeth Cormack; husband of Winifred May Cormack, of Cressy Rd., North Ryde, New South Wales. He is one of four Australian casualties of the Great War remembered on the Wick War Memorial.

Address:

Corner of Cliff Road & Station Road (A99),Wick, Caithness, Highland KW1 5EF,Scotland

The memorial is on a roundabout joining the main A99 with Station Road. It is a figure of victory on a stone pillar in an elevated walled enclosure reached by steps. Bronze name plaques are mounted on the semi-circular walls.

Wick (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ùige, Scots: Week]) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay.

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