MCALPIN, Donald
| Service Number: | 2220 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Toll, Fort William, Scotland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Clear Lake, Horsham, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 26 August 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clear Lake Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Yea War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2220, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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| 27 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2220, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, J McAlpin, Kildonnan, Eigg, Scotland
Enlistment date 29 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 27 July 1915
21st Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/38/2
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 27 September 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of three Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Kingussie war memorial. Kingussie is in Inverness-shire, Scotland. The war memorial is located opposite the Duke of Gordon Hotel at the south end of village, at the junction of High Street and Station Road, Kingussie. It takes the form of a Celtic Cross of polished grey granite with a carved badge of the Cameron Highlanders on the front, at the base of the shaft, and a Gaelic motto below; the whole is set on a square plinth of granite blocks, with an inset of inscription and names panels, on a two-stepped base in the centre of a circular paved area surrounded by garden beds and lawns. The memorial was dedicated in 1921.
The other two are:
Private Laghlan/Lachlan McQueen,Service Number 1869, of the 50th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. who died 02/04/1917.
Trooper Sidney Bunten Brown, Service Number 197. of the 1st Australian Light Horse who was killed in action at Gallipoli 7 August 1915.
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