Robert (Bob) MCKEOWN

MCKEOWN, Robert

Service Number: NX124624
Enlisted: 1 October 1936
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: 54 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born: Pymble, New South Wales, Australia, 3 July 1906
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Banking/finance
Died: Biventricular failure, Bronchogenic Carcinoma, Perth Western Australia, 13 December 1981, aged 75 years
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
VC Area Wall 2 position 0001 MCB-285590-W2K2N1 KC00068935 (historic) KARRAKATTA CEMETERY Cremation
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World War 2 Service

1 Oct 1936: Enlisted NX124624, 54 Infantry Battalion AMF
21 Feb 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, NX124624, 54 Infantry Battalion AMF

My Pop

Robert Mckeown is my paternal grandfather. Known to friends and family as "Bob" he was the youngest of 6 children born to Ebenezer and Eliza Mckeown. Bob was born in Pymble NSW and worked for the Bank of New South Wales/Wales bank in Dubbo, Manly and later Perth WA for most of his life. Bob and wife Laura moved to Perth in the early 1970's to be close to their only son Geoff and his family where they lived in a flat Scarborough near the beach. Bob died of Lung Cancer in Royal Perth Hospital in December 1981. Bob was cremated and his ashes are located in a memorial garden at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth alongside wife Laura, son Geoff and his wife Judy.

My memories of Pop are of a gentle giant of a man who had a wry sense of humour and a fondness for rolls of cadbury dairy milk chocolate.

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