MACGILLIVRAY, Ian Hamilton
| Service Numbers: | Q140669, QX35632 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, 26 May 1899 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Cardiac arrest, Hastings Point, New South Wales, Australia, 22 March 1951, aged 51 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jan 1942: | Involvement Major, Q140669, also QX35632 | |
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| 22 Jan 1942: | Involvement Major, QX35632, also Q140669 | |
| 22 Jan 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 22 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, QX35632 | |
| 7 Jan 1946: | Discharged | |
| 7 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, QX35632 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Julia Harvie
Born at Hamilton, Victoria, Ian Hamilton MacGillivray was the only surviving son of Dr W.D.K. MacGillivray, a noted ornithologist and former president of the RAOU. Ian grew up among birds, as his father took him on many expeditions while living at Broken Hill. Ian wrote a number of informative articles about birdlife. Ian attended Scotch College in Melbourne then onto the University of Melbourne where he studied medicine. He travelled to England in 1929 to complete his medical studies. He was in practice with his father at Broken Hill and in 1939 transferred to Murwillumbah.
In January 1942, Ian joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, and attained the rank of major. He provided medical treatment on hospital ships and in repatriation hospitals in Queensland, until his discharge in 1946.
He was a much-loved country doctor in Murwillumbah in his post war years, until he died suddenly from a heart attack while on holiday at Cudgera with his family on 22 March 1951 at the age of 52.
The municipality of Murwillumbah had a monument to Dr MacGillivray and his work in their community.
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