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MCILVEEN, George Alexander

Service Number:	4366
Enlisted:	12 September 1915, Holdsworthy
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 8 August 1895
Home Town:	Campsie, Canterbury, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Driver
Died:	Natural causes, Yaralla Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 31 July 1966, aged 70 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

12 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4366, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Holdsworthy
30 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 4366, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
30 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 4366, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney
14 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Infantry Battalion
1 Jun 1917:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
21 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4366, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Multiple shell wounds to legs and buttock - left leg amputated
12 Dec 1917:	Honoured Military Medal, Third Ypres, For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in company with 22 Private William Edward Bruderlin (KIA 20.09.1917), when acting as stretcher bearers on the night of 16 September 1917, east of Ypres, when their CO and six others had been killed and a great number wounded, under the heaviest barrage, they continually dressed and carried wounded to the Advanced Dressing Station until the trench had been cleared.
23 Jul 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4366, 2nd Infantry Battalion, D15, England and then in HT Karoola for invaliding to Australia - disembarking Sydney 6 September 1918
2 Dec 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4366, 2nd Infantry Battalion

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