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Son of William Keith GARVIE and Jean nee ARCHER

McGARVIE.—Killed in action, in France, on the 8th July, Hector  Archer McGarvie, 2nd Lieutenant R.F.A., youngest son of Mr. and  Mrs. Wm. McGarvie, Greenwood, Pomborneit, aged 21 years
and 6 months.

Lieut. Hector McGarvie, of Weerite, has been killed in action in France. The deceased soldier, who was well known throughout the district, was the third son of Mr and Mrs William McGarvie, of  "Greenwood," Pomborneit. He was 21 years and six months of age and left Australia on June 13, 1916, for training in England. He soon became a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, British  Expeditionary Forces, and arrived in France in February of this year, where he had been engaged on active service until July 8, when he was killed in action. No family (says the "Camperdown  Chronicle") could do more for the Empire in its hour of trial than that of Mr and Mrs Wm. McGarvie has done, for their other two sons both early answered the call and both saw strenuous active  service. Sergeant Keith McGarvie participated in the famous landing by the Australians at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, and was invalided home the following August. Trooper David McGarvie, who was attached to the 8th Light Horse, was wounded at Walker's Ridge, and returned to Australia as a result of wounds in December, 1915.