Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Allan and Annie Marie KINNAIRD.

The news that Private Allan Bruce Kinnaird had been killed at the Dardanelles on August 7th, was wired by the Defence Department to the Rev. J.A. Lee, Presbyterian clergyman of Numurkah, with the request that he communicate it to the two brothers of the deceased, Messres William and Cecil Kinnaird. 

Bruce Kinnaird was a young man - he was only 20 years of age - of a very loveable dispostion; though often brusque in his manner, he was never offensive; it was just his 'off hand way'; and it needed only a short acquaintance to understand and to thorouoghly appreciated him.  During his close upon four years' residence in Shepparton there was no more popular young fellow than he.  It was after being transferred as ledger-keeper at the Shepparton branch of the State Savings Bank to the St Kilda branch, that he, in November last volunteered for service in the war.  He was very keen on matters military; and as a member of the 8th Light Horse Regiment was always to be ssen in his pace.  It was very likely in one of those series of magnificent charges against Turkish positions (described by Captain Bean, the official correspondent with the Australian forces) that young Kinnaird met his death.  

He was the son of the late Mr. Allan Kinnaird, of Numurkah, who died about a year ago, and who was well known in business and sporting circles in the Goulburn Valley.  Bruce Kinnaird's share in his father's estate was stated to be in the region of £4ooo, which he was to received on attaining the age of 25 years; but when the national and Empire call came, he thought nothing of such things; and like the true hero he ever was, with the unconquerable blood of Scotia in his veins, he went forth to join in the battles of the just.  There was many a moist eye when the news of his death reached Shepparton.