KILGOUR, Andrew
| Service Number: | 2616 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Wooroolin Great War Pictorial Honour Roll, Wooroolin WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2616, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2616, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane |
Kilgour Andrew 2616 9th Infantry Battalion
Andrew Kilgour, known as Andy, was born 9 Nov 1892 at Bundaberg, the fifth of eleven children of Andrew & Mary Ann Kilgour.
Per an article in the Kingaroy Herald News of about 1965, Andy joined the Army, aged 22, in Jun 1915 whilst working at the farm of HN Campbell at Wooroolin. He joined the 9th Infantry Battalion and his unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on 16 August 1915.
The battalion's first major action in France was at Pozieres in the Somme valley. The 9th Battalion attacked on the extreme right of the line. In September 1916 the battalion was moved to Belgium where they served in and out of the front lines near Ypres. In early October 1916 they returned to the Somme just in time to spend the bitterly cold winter of 1916-1917 in the trenches. Returning to Belgium in September 1917, the battalion fought in major battles including Menin Road, Broodseinde Ridge, Poelcappelle and Passchendaele during the Third Ypres campaign. The battalion continued operations until late September 1918. At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent. The November armistice was followed by the peace treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919.
Andy returned to Australia 14 January 1919 and by 1921 he was living at Memerambi and working for the Ogilvy Brothers. The Ogilvy farm not far from where I grew up 30 years later…. Whilst he was working at Memerambi he met and, in 1929, married Doris Grant in whose family ran the Memerambi Store.
They were living in Wooroolin in 1930 where the parents of Andy also lived at that time. By 1936 Andy & Dorishad moved to the Gladstone region.
In 1965 he was present at the Wooroolin Anzac Day service as one of three WW1 veterans invited. The others were Charles Birch and Otto Lind who both joined at Kingaroy. Andy told the reporter that he was wounded at Fleur Bay in the first action in which Australian Troops took part.
Andy died in 1971 and is buried at Bundaberg General Cemetery where he joined Doris who had died 2 years earlier.
Lest We Forget
Submitted 17 October 2022 by Carol Berry
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