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Private William Henry McGee (Service No:Q269048) enlisted in the ACMF on 17 September 1942 with 1 Australian Services Training Battalion, and was posted to 7 Australian Infantry Training Battalion - graded Driver Mechanic. Private McGee was attached to 33 Australian Infantry Training Battalion on 25 April 1944 when he was placed on the Seriously Ill List, and was attached to 2/12 Australian General Hospital at Discharge on 24 November 1944 (Medically Unfit).

Bill was born in Warwick, QLD in 1911, eldest of six children of Robert David McGee (b1883 in Goondiwindi, QLD) and Laura Agnes Smith (b1892 in Toowoomba, QLD). Robert was a Labourer at Leyburn on the Darling Downs in 1909 when he and Laura married in Toowoomba. They settled at Leyburn on the Darling Downs, where they raised their family and Robert worked as a Labourer and Railway Employee.

Bill worked as a Labourer in Leyburn, and in 1936 at Millmerran on the Darling Downs married his first wife Mona Grace Stockbridge (b1915 in Pittsworth on the Darling Downs, QLD). Bill and Mona lived in Leyburn until 1941, when they separated - divorcing in 1946. Bill was working as a Mechanic at the Yandarlo Road Camp via Charleville in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army - nominating Annie Lee as his NoK. Following his Discharge, Bill worked as a Grader Driver in Wondai, and was in Toowoomba in the early 1950s when he married his second wife Arlie (Annie) Lee (nee Thornton; b1911 in Warwick, QLD). Bill and Annie married in the early 1950s, and settled in Tamborine Village where Bill worked as a Grader Driver. Bill and Annie retired to Warwick in the 1970s, where Bill died in 1984 and Annie in 2006.