MCKINSTRY, Andrew Hugh
| Service Number: | 5152 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916, Place of enlistment - Bendigo, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Goornong, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial Plot XXV, Row D, Grave 22. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Goornong District Honor Roll WW1, Goornong Presbyterian Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5152, 7th Infantry Battalion, Place of enlistment - Bendigo, Victoria | |
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| 1 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5152, 7th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMAT 'A23' Suffolk from Melbourne on 1st April 1916, disembarking Suez, Egypt on 12th May 1916 | |
| 24 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
| 21 Jul 1916: | Transferred 57th Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 Apr 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5152, 57th Infantry Battalion, Proceeded to France form Folkestone on 5th April 1917. | |
| 8 Jul 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5152, 21st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5152 awm_unit: 21st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
Pte ANDREW HUGH McKINSTRY
From Frank Mahieu
Battle of Broodseinde 4 October 1917, remembering brothers who were killed that day: On 4 October 1917 both Australian brothers ANDREW HUGH McKINSTRY and THOMAS MARSHALL McKINSTRY of Bendigo (Victoria, Australia) serving with 21st Battalion (6th. Bgd, 2nd Div), Australian Imperial Force were killed at Broodseinde Ridge during 3rd Ypres. A third brother, James, survived the war. Andrew is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Thomas is commemorated at Menin Gate Memorial. With text and story, Exhortation and Kohima, flowers and remembrance card, Anthem and pipe tunes beautifully performed by my pal Gil we honoured these two fallen brothers. May they rest in Peace.
Submitted 6 October 2019 by Evan Evans
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of William John and Charlotte McKINSTRY, of Goornong, Victoria.
Brother of
- 2597 Private Arthur Laggart McKINSTRY - , 15th Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia 28th August 1919 (born 1888)
- 237 Private James Alexander McKINSTRY - 2nd Pioneer Battalion, returned to Australia late 1916 (born 1894)
- 238 Sergeant Thomas Marshall McKINSTRY - 21st Infantry Battalion, killed in action Belguim 4th October 1917 (born 1896) [Left Australia on the same vessel as his brother James and was killed on the same day as his brother Andrew, who was serving in the same unit]
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
WW1 Brothers who died the same day by Frank Mahieu
Remembering ANDREW & THOMAS McKINSTRY A.I.F. killed 4 Oct. 1917.
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On 4 October 1917 both brothers ANDREW HUGH McKINSTRY and THOMAS MARSHALL McKINSTRY of Bendigo (Victoria, Australia) serving with 21st Battalion (6th. Bgd, 2nd Div), Australian Imperial Force were killed at Broodseinde Ridge during 3rd Ypres. A third brother, Private Arthur Laggart MKinstry, 15th Light Horse Regiment, survived the war and returned home.
THOMAS, a Bendigo (Victoria) farmhand aged almost 20, enlisted on 18 January 1915 into the original complement of 21st Battalion. He served at Anzac, Gallipoli from 29 August 1915 until evacuated with dysentery on 2 October 1915 to recover in England. He rejoined his battalion in France on 2 July 1916 to fight at Pozieres and rose to Sergeant before being wounded and initially posted missing on 4 October 1917 at Passchendaele Ridge. Eyewitness reports noted him “killed by concussion – no marks on him”. Thomas’ body was lost and he is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His brother ANDREW, also from Bendigo and a labourer, enlisted aged almost 19 on 11 January 1916, also into 21st Battalion. He was taken on strength of 5th Battalion on 21 July 1916 before succumbing to pneumonia in November, his return to active service being further delayed by VD in England before returning to 57th on 27 April 1917 and transferring back to 21st Battalion on 8 July 1917. Like his brother, he was initially known to be wounded but he was never brought in and was later determined to have been killed in action on 4 October 1917. His body was later recovered and Andrew buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.
THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.
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