MCINNESS, Donald Edward
| Service Number: | 6525 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, 21 January 1882 |
| Home Town: | Cobar, Cobar, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 29 November 1940, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6525, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6525, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6525, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 25 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6525, 4th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell is at Sandgate Cemerty. Newcastle, NSW ·
A forgotten digger of The Great War and Sandgate Cemetery.
Private Donald Edward McInness, 4th Battalion, labourer of East Cobar, New South Wales, was laid to rest 79 years ago today on the 29th November 1940 at Sandgate Cemetery, age 58. CATHOLIC 2-61. 68.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132802985
Born at Cobar, New South Wales on the 21st January 1882 (as MCINNES) to Allan and Alice McInness; husband of Amy Louisa McInness (Post Office, Lidcombe, New South Wales, married?, died 1955), Donald enlisted April 1916 at Dubbo, New South Wales, and returned home July 1919.
Mr McInness’s name has not been inscribed on the Cobar World War 1 Honor Rolls, but I had located Donald’s grave before 2000, and is inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
For 76 years Donald had been resting in an unmarked grave, so I have placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/…/war-…/index.php…
Many thanks to Lynne Dalton for the portrait photo and family history research.
Lest We Forget.
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