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MCGILLIVRAY, John Robert
| Service Number: | 313 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Lake Mundi, Victoria, Australia, April 1894 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Bank Manager |
| Died: | Glenelg, South Australia, Australia, 14 June 1956, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia General A/Path 18/194A |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls, Mount Gambier St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honor, Sydney (ANZ) English, Scottish and Australian Bank Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 313, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Karroo embarkation_ship_number: A10 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 313, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Karroo, Melbourne | |
| 22 Nov 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 313, 9th Light Horse Regiment |
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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.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Father
419 Regimental Sergeant Major James McIntosh McGillivray 5th South Australia Contingent KIA Boer War South Africa 21 July 1901 age 50.
Brother
312 Trooper James Alexander McGillivray 9th Light Horse Regiment, killed in action 28th August 1915 age 26.
John McGillivray, only 20 years of age, had the sad duty of writing to his mother Sophie and informing her of the death of his brother. John survived the August battles on Gallipoli but was evacuated with enteric fever in late October 1915. Transferred to Egypt, it was decided to send him home to Australia, where he arrived in January 1916. John McGillivray was discharged from the AIF at his own request in November 1916, which is a very rare occurrence, perhaps illness forced his decision or it may have been felt by himself or the AIF that his family had given enough.
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