Robert Prince McCann MACOUN

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MACOUN, Robert Prince McCann

Service Number:	4864
Enlisted:	31 August 1915, Rockhampton, Queensland
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Rockhampton, Queensland, 20 November 1880
Home Town:	Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Locomotive Engine driver
Died:	Natural causes, Rockhampton, Queensland, 8 August 1939, aged 58 years
Cemetery:	North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld Plot: CofE Sec. 2 Row 7, Grave No 4
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

31 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4864, Rockhampton, Queensland
28 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4864, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
28 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4864, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Brisbane
22 Dec 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 15th Infantry Battalion
1 Feb 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4864, 15th Infantry Battalion, German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages, Hand grenade shrapnel (left thigh)
2 Feb 1917:	Imprisoned German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages, Captured at Transloy, Somme
13 Dec 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 15th Infantry Battalion, Repatriated from Germany to England
13 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4864, 15th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

4864 Private Robert Prince McCann Macoun was captured at Transloy, Somme area on the 2 February 1917. When he was taken Prisoner he was found to be wounded in the left thigh from shrapnel, from a hand-grenade.

He was interned in Prisoner of War camps in Germany and was transfered between Stettin, Limburg, Altdamm and Schneidemuhl before being repatriated to England at the conclusion of the War on 13 December 1918.

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