MCKAY, Robert
| Service Number: | 10 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Brigade Headquarters |
| Born: | Chiltern, Victoria, Australia, 17 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Chiltern, Indigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Chiltern State School, Victoria Australia |
| Occupation: | Store Keeper |
| Died: | Heart Attack, Cracow Queensland Australia, 13 July 1946, aged 58 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cracow Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 10, 7th Infantry Brigade Headquarters | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 10, 7th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 10, 7th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Researched and written by Vicki Allen
Born: Chiltern, Victoria 17th may 1888
Died: Cracow Queensland 13 July 1946 - buried in Cracow.
Did everything from a station hand after the war, mined gold, sold vegetables and eventually owned his own Cafe in Cracow, where he passed away.
He was shot across the bum by a snipper in Gallipoli, and suffered mustard gas burns in France.
Evidently he was a very clever man, who could turn his hand at anything. When the baker died he took on the bakery until he was replaced, when the watchmaker went a bit funny (that's how Mum described it) he fixed all the watches and clocks for people. During WW 2 he went to work at the gold mine in Cracow with another digger and they did the mineral samples etc each day so that the more able men could go under ground.
Tragically he died of a heart attack, suddenly.
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