MCKELVEY, Harold George
| Service Number: | 1370 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 March 1918, Queenscliff, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 36th Heavy Artillery Group |
| Born: | Kensington, Victoria, 28 December 1897 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman/Butcher |
| Died: | Natural causes, Homebush, New South Wales, 1974 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 1 Mar 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1370, Queenscliff, Victoria | |
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| 5 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 1370, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jul 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 1370, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, RMS Orontes, Sydney | |
| 3 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 1370, 36th Heavy Artillery Group |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Harold was the second child and only son of George Robert McKelvey and Cecilia Jane McKelvey (nee Jewell). He enlisted on 1 March 1918 and was deployed as a Gunner in the HeavyArtillery Group 36, 18th Reinforcements (Siege Artillery Brigade) serving in France and England. His service record indicates his occupation on enlistment was a Stockman.
When he was born in Victoria his father, George Robert, was in partnership with his brother William Alexander McKelvey in a number of successful butcher shops in and around Melbourne. George Robert eventually took over the shops and would later amalgamate his buisnesses with Sir William Anglis. As a result George Robert moved the family to NSW to run some of the Anglis operations. He established a couple of butcher shops in Sydney with his sons and Harold worked in the buisnesses as a butcher until he retired.
Harold is the cousin of Cyril Arthur McKelvey Ser. No's.: 292 & 21760 and nephew of Charles Edward McKelvey aka 'Claude' No.:689898. Harold's photo was provided by his daughter Alison.
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