MCPHEE, Alick
| Service Number: | 3390 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 1947, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3390, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3390, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3390, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 29 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3390, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Alick McPhee enlisted in the 14th Battalion but transferred to the 32nd Battalion during early 1916, no doubt to be with his married older brother William McPhee. Both fought in the same platoon at Fromelles. Alick suffered multiple gunshot wounds and 119 Private William McPhee was killed in action on 20 July 1916.
Another brother, 3870 Pte. Norman Donald McPhee 8th Battalion AIF, had been killed in action only three weeks before on the 29 June 1916, aged 29.
Alick was evacuated to England and was admitted to hospital there with gunshot wounds to his left thigh, right arm and right foot, which included a compound fracture of the femur. He spent most of his time in England after that in and out of hospitals, mainly due to old wounds flaring up. He did return to France briefly but had to be evacuated to England again. He was returned to Australia on the 4 January 1919 and discharged medically unfit.
Another brother 956 Pte. Richard John Valentine McPhee 37th Battalion AIF was shot in the chest at Messines on 7 June 1917. He was evacuated to England and returned to Australia in late 1917, with a penetrating wound to his right lung.