MALCOLM, Peter Anderson
| Service Number: | 4739 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gospetry, Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland., 2 May 1890 |
| Home Town: | Helensburgh, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 17 November 1916, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Heilly Station Cemetery Grave-V. G. 22., Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4739, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4739, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 26 and the son of John and Helen Malcolm, of Middleburn Cottages, Glencraig, Fife, Scotland.
He is one of three locally born Australian soldiers of the Great War remembered on the Milnathort War Memorial in Perth and Kinross.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was born in Gospetry in Strathmiglo (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Mioglach) which is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland on the River Eden. It lies on the old A91 road. from Milnathort to Cupar and St. Andrews. At the time, his father was a Foreman Ploughman. His mother’s maiden surname was Anderson; his parents married November 24th 1882 in Portmoak, a parish on the east side of Kinross-shire lying between Loch Leven and Fife. It is bounded by the parishes of Cleish, Kinross, Orwell, Strathmiglo, Falkland, Leslie, Kinglassie, Auchterderran and Ballingry.
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