MACGILLIVRAY, John Robert
| Service Number: | S87735 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 June 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Adelaide, SA, 18 June 1926 |
| Home Town: | Kilkenny, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 30 Jun 1944: | Involvement Private, S87735, 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 30 Jun 1944: | Enlisted Hindmarsh, SA | |
| 30 Jun 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S87735 | |
| 8 Oct 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
313 John Robert MacGILLIVRAY was born at Lake Mundi, Victoria, in April 1894 and attended Sutton Town Public School before being enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 21 January 1907 by his mother, Sophie Campbell MacGillivray of Penola Road, Mount Gambier. He left school on 31 December 1908.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 22 October 1914 (21, bank clerk, single, Presbyterian) naming his mother, Sophie Campbell MacGillivray of Wehl Street, Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Melbourne on the ‘Karroo’ on 11 February 1915 and joined the 9th Light Horse on Gallipoli on 16 May 1915, was evacuated to the Hospital Ship “Delta” on 16 October 1915 suffering from enteric and hospitalised at Alexandria on 20 October. Military authorities eventually decided to return him to Australia and he embarked from Suez on the ‘Wandilla’ on 13 December 1915, disembarked on 12 January 1916, discharged to Light Horse Base Company on 29 March 1916 and was finally discharged ‘medically unfit’ on 30 November 1916.