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MUNRO, Hector Watson
Service Number: | 2004 |
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Enlisted: | 14 January 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
Born: | Golspie, Scotland, 1876 |
Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Died of Wounds, At sea on board HS Guildford Castle, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 18 August 1915 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave-Buried at Sea. Panel 18, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
14 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2004, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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10 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2004, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
10 Apr 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2004, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
8 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2004, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), ANZAC / Gallipoli, Fractured jaw due to a bullet wound |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of C Munro of Golspie, Sutherlandshire, Scotland
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His brother also fell and is also commemorated on the Golspie War Memorial.. He was Rifleman Jack Munro, aged 20,[ Born Golspie, Sutherland.] Service Number 372052 of the 8th Bn. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) who died 16/02/1917- LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY Grave XI. A. 28A.
They were sons of Dugald and Margaret Munro, of Dundee.
He is one of two Australian soldiers of the Great War to be honoured on the Golspie War Memorial, in the county of Sutherland, Scotland. The other is Private D. Sutherland. An Australian soldier of WWII is also honoured here-he is Private William MacKay, aged 35,Service Number WX7138, of the A.I.F. 2/4 M.G. Bn. Australian Infantry who died 23/09/1943.
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY Grave 1. L. 56.