Allan Benson MCDOUGALL

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MCDOUGALL, Allan Benson

Service Number:	5146
Enlisted:	11 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Recherche, Tasmania, Australia, 3 July 1895
Home Town:	Middleton, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor driver
Died:	Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

11 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5146, 12th Infantry Battalion
29 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 5146, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
29 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 5146, 12th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

The son of William Charles and Hannah Jane McDougall, of Middleton, Tasmania.

Allan McDougall only enlisted in January 1916 and was reported missing at Mouquet Farm on 4 September 1916. His death was confirmed some eight months later. One of his mates wrote to his father after the war and told him Allan was last seen bomb throwing in a German trench which was hit by a shell and blown in. He had just turned 21 years of age. His first cousins were Lance Corporal Stanley R. McDougall VC MM and Lieutenant Charles William Hay, Australian Flying Corps.

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