MCINNES, Herbert Finlay
| Service Number: | 3088 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 September 1916, 2 year 4th AIB (Newcastle) |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Field Artillery Brigades |
| Born: | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, September 1885 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horse breaker |
| Died: | Georgetown, New South Wales, Australia, 20 December 1947, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-22NW. 18 |
| Memorials: | Waratah Masonic Lodge No 170 Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3088, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2 year 4th AIB (Newcastle) | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3088, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3088, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 25 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, Field Artillery Brigades | |
| 9 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 3088, Field Artillery Brigades, 2nd MD (medically unfit) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
73 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 22nd December 1947, Gunner (not Driver) Herbert Finlay or Finley McInnes, Australian Field Artillery Details (Reg No-3088), horse breaker from Greaves Street, North Waratah, New South Wales and 124 Christo Road, Georgetown, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. ANGLICAN 3-176. 30.
Born at Muswellbrook, New South Wales on the 11th September 1885 to Findlay and Emma Susannah McInnes; husband of Catherine Elizabeth McInnes nee Pender (married 1905, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1954), Herbert enlisted September 1916 with the 34th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Admitted to Sutton Veny Hospital 8.1.1918 (pleurisy), 6.2.1918 (pericarditis), Herbert returned home June 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 9th November 1918.
I have only located Mr McInnes’s name inscribed on the Waratah Masonic Lodge No. 170, U.G.L. N.S.W. (unveiled date unknown, photo courtesy of Ed Tonks (OAM).
I have placed poppies at Herbert’s gravesite to honour his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge.
Older brother John Robert (4th Australian Pioneer Battalion, Reg No-1979, born 1880, died 1934) also resting at the cemetery. PRESBYTERIAN-22NW. 18.
Lest We Forget.
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