MCGEE, Robert Edgar
| Service Number: | Q271145 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 19 May 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 10 February 1913 |
| Home Town: | Leyburn, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Leyburn State School, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Wheat Lumper |
| Died: | Cecil Plains via Dalby, Queensland, Australia, 30 June 1972, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance | Cemetery & Crematorium |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 19 May 1943: | Involvement Private, Q271145 | |
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| 19 May 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 19 May 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q271145, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots | |
| 17 Feb 1944: | Discharged | |
| 17 Feb 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q271145, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Robert Edgar McGee (Service No:Q271145) served in the ACMF with 1 Australian Services Training Battalion and Reinforcements Reception Depot from 19 May 1943 to 17 February 1944.
Second of six children, Bob was born in Warwick, QLD in 1913 to Robert David McGee (b1883 in Goondiwindi, QLD) and Laura Agnes Smith (b1892 in Toowoomba, QLD). Robert was a Railway Worker in Leyburn on the Darling Downs in 1909 when he and Laura married in Toowoomba. The couple settled in Layburn, where they raised their family and Robert was a Labourer.
Bob worked in Leyburn as a Labourer, and in 1939 in Warwick married Amy Mildred Tucker (b1915 in Allora on the Darling Downs, QLD). Bob and Amy settled in Leyburn, and Bob was a Wheat Lumper in 1943 when he enlisted in the Army. In the 1950s Bob and Amy moved to Toowoomba, where they raised their family and Bob worked as a Shearer before moving in the 1960s to Cecil Plains via Dalby. Bob worked as a Shearer until his death in 1972. Amy died in 2000.
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