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MCMILLAN, John
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 6416 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1915, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Balaklava, South Australia, February 1890 |
| Home Town: | Balaklava, Wakefield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6416, 3rd Field Company Engineers, at Adelaide | |
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| 20 Mar 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 6416, 3rd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 6416, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Armadale, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sapper, 6416 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Modbury High School
John Mcmillan was a farmer in Balaklava when he joined the AIF on the 16th of August 1915. He was 25 and a half years old when he registered. He embarked on the HMAT A26 Armadale on the 21 of March 1916. He served for a period on the Western Front but was repeatedly in hospital with illness. In late 1917 he was admitted to hospital with rheumatism and was later diagnosed with renal calculis. He was returned to Australia for medical discharge in August 1918.