MCKINNON, Eric Donald
| Service Number: | SX15762 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 29 December 1941, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 4 June 1917 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairy Hand |
| Died: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality - New South Wales, Australia, 30 January 1978, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Broken Hill Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Dec 1941: | Involvement Private, SX15762 | |
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| 29 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 29 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX15762, 18 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 5 Apr 1944: | Discharged | |
| 5 Apr 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX15762, 18 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eric was the fifth of nine children of Donald Archibald McKinnon (born 1881 in Clare, South Australia) and Ada Florence Shore (born 1882 in Stockport, South Australia). Donald and Ada married in 1903 at Broken Hill - an outback mining town in NSW near the South Australian border. They lived in Broken Hill, where Donald worked as an Engine Driver, and regularly returned to South Australia - which is where their children enlisted in WWII.
A Dairy Hand in Broken Hill, Eric enlisted in the Army in December 1941 and was a Private (Service No:SX15762) attached to 18 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in April 1944. Sister Lorraine Jean (RAAF, Service No:96837) and brothers Colin Malcolm (Sapper, Service No:SX8919) and Laurance (Leading Aircraftman, Service No:141808) also served in WWII, as did Brothers-in-Law Richard Thomas Toohey (Private, Service No:SX14441) and George Brian McLachlan (Leading Aircraftman, Service No:121747).
Eric returned to Broken Hill following the War and was a Dairy Hand in 1953 when he married Muriel Joan Moore (born 1927 at Stansbury in South Australia). Eric and Muriel settled in Broken Hill where Eric worked as a Labourer until his Death in 1978. Muriel died in 2007.