Reuben Ernest MCKASKILL

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MCKASKILL, Reuben Ernest

Service Number:	1720
Enlisted:	15 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	47th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 January 1897
Home Town:	Woodford, Moreton Bay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10 September 1962, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
Memorials:	Woodford Honour Roll, Woodford Methodist Circuit Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

15 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1720, 37th Infantry Battalion
3 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 1720, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
3 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 1720, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane
10 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1720, 47th Infantry Battalion, France: Shell Wound to abdomen, leg and arm (severe)
17 Mar 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1720, 47th Infantry Battalion, RTA per HS Beltana
25 Jun 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1720, 47th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Reuben was the second of twelve children of Donald McKaskill (b1871 in Brisbane, QLD) and Jane Ellen Leacy (b1876 in Brisbane, QLD). Donald (a Carpenter) and Jane married in 1895 in Bisbane, QLD. They lived in Brisbane, Dayboro and Woodford and in 1916 Donald enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:36). Donald and Jane were Divorced in 1927.

Reuben was living in Woodford QLD in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:1720). He served in Egypt and France, where he was severley wounded in August 1916 - Shell Wound to his abdomen, leg and arm, resulting in part of his intestine being removed. Rebuen was Discharged in 1917 and was working as a Labourer in Woodford, QLD when he married Esther Norma Denford (b1911). By the mid 1930s they had separated - Esther was living in Brisbane and Reuben was in the Soldiers' Rest Home in Coolangatta, QLD.

In the early 1950s Reuben married Annie May Molloy (b1907 in Toowoomba QLD) - Annie had served as a Private (Service No:QX58061) in WWII. The couple settled in the Sandgate/Redcliffe area - Boondall and Deagon - where Annie died in 1960 and Reuben in 1962.

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