Ronald Elwyn (Ron) MCKELLAR

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MCKELLAR, Ronald Elwyn

Service Number:	NX40463
Enlisted:	21 June 1940
Last Rank:	Not yet discovered
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Marangulla via Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 16 April 1906
Home Town:	Glen Innes, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales
Schooling:	The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Civil Engineer
Died:	Southport, Queensland, Australia, 9 March 1990, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Glen Innes World War 2 Memorial

World War 2 Service

21 Jun 1940:	Enlisted NX40463
23 Oct 1945:	Discharged NX40463

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Captain Ronald Elwyn McKellar (Service No:NX40463) had served as a Sergeant for three years with The Sydney University Scouts, and enlisted in the AIF at Tamworth as a Private with 2/1 Survey Regiment on 21 June 1940. Appointed Lieutenant, he served in the Middle East (9 April 1941 - 31 March 1942), and was a Captain (31 July 1943) serving intermittently in the Northern Territory through 1943/1944 with 12 Army Troops Coy and 5 Australian Mechanical Equipment Coy. Captain McKellar was attached to 2/1 Australian Survey Regiment RAA at Termination of Appointment on 23 October 1945 (Honorary Major).

Ron was born in Marangulla, New South Wales in 1906, second of three children (and only son) of Archibald McKellar (b1865 in Carcoar, New South Wales) and Alice Maud Paton (b1880 in Cowra, New South Wales). Archibald (a Teacher) and Alice married in 1901 in Cowra - Archibald was a Teacher until retirement.

Ron was working in Nowra as an Engineer with the Main Roads Board when, in Sydney in 1930, he married Emma Hannah Martha Bowden (b1908 in Sydney, New South Wales). Ron and Emma were living in Glen Innes - where Ron was a Civil Engineer - in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge in 1945, Ron and Emma lived in Sydney, Walcha, Canberra and Kyalla via Queanbeyan - Ron was a Civil Engineer and Member of the Road Safety Council. In the early 1970s Ron and Emma retired to Surfers ParadiseS QLD - Ron died in Southport in 1990.

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