Daniel MCKINNON

MCKINNON, Daniel

    Service Number: 1330
    Enlisted: 14 July 1915, Perth, Western Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 32nd Infantry Battalion
    Born: London, England, 7 July 1891
    Home Town: East Perth, Perth Water, Western Australia
    Schooling: Russell Road Board School, London
    Occupation: Barman
    Died: Died of wounds (POW of Germany), France, 28 July 1916, aged 25 years
    Cemetery: Douai Communal Cemetery
    Douai Communal Cemetery, Douai, Nord Pas de Calais, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    14 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1330, Perth, Western Australia
    18 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1330, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
    18 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1330, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
    20 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1330, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), GSW (left arm)
    20 Jul 1916: Imprisoned Fromelles (Fleurbaix)

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    Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

    Daniel McKinnon was captured by the Germans at the Battle of Fromelles 20 July 1916. He was reported by the Germans to have died of wounds in hospital near Douai on the 28 July 1916. (Gun shot wound lower left arm).

    His father lived in London and was forwarded his identity disc which was returned by the Germans. His older brother 1917 Pte. David Stanley McKinnon of the 28th Battalion AIF was killed in action the at Pozieres on 29 July 1916, the day after his brother died.

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