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MACMILLAN, Douglas Gilchrist
| Service Number: | 3439 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 December 1916, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Normanville, South Australia, 24 September 1897 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Christ Church Day School Normanville, St Peter's Collegiate School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Corryong, Victoria, Australia, 22 February 1939, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Corryong Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Scots Church WW1 Honour Board, Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, North Adelaide Christ Church Honour Board, Yankalilla District Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3439, 50th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3439, 50th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3439, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
DOUGLAS GILCHRIST MACMILLAN, a son of Mrs. A. K. Macmillan and the late G. H. Macmillan, of Largs, was born at Normanville, South Australia, on 24th September, 1897.
He was educated at St. Peter’s College, Adelaide, and joined the service of the Bank at Port Adelaide on 13th April, 1914. He was transferred to Broken Hill in February, 1915, and enlisted on 30th December, 1916.
On arrival in France he joined the 50th Battalion, with which he acted as stretcher-bearer. In the latter part of April, 1918, when the Australian Forces were stemming the German attack on Amiens the 50th Battalion saw very hard fighting, in the course of which Private Macmillan was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and devotion to duty while stretcher-bearing in the neighbourhood of Villers-Bretonneux.
Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
OBITUARY
The death occurred at Corryong of Mr. Douglas Gilchrist MacMillan, bank manager, aged 41 years. He was the first secretary of the Corryong branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. Mr. MacMillan served in the Great War for three and a half years. He is survived by a widow and two children.
Mr. Douglas Gilchrist Macmillan, who died last week in Victoria, was a twin son of George Harris Macmillan, who married his cousin, Alicie Kate Butterworth, daughter of John Butterworth, owner of the Normanville mill in the palmy days of the fifties. John's brother, Eli Buterworth, owned the Yankalilla mill. Butterworth Bros, wheat ship, the Centaur, plied between Normanville and Melbourne, Mr. G. H. Macmillan was instrumental in planting marram grass on the sandhills at Normanville to restrain the sand-drift. Douglas Gilchrist Macmillan and his twin, Ian Stewart Macmillan, were born in their grandfather's house at Normanville, now belonging to Mr. Croser. They received their early education at Christ Church day school. After Mr. Butterworth's death, the family went to Buxton street, North Adelaide, and the twins attended St. Peter's College. The twins and their elder brother, Hugh, served in the Great War. Hugh was invalided home, and died some time after from injuries received. His name is on the recumbent memorial cross in Christ Church, North Adelaide, and on the memorial gates at Yankalilla.
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