Number Private 1174

Battalion 5th Battalion

Place of Birth Inverness Scotland

Next of Kin Mrs. Mary Stuart c/o Miss Shingler
The Grange Leongatha

Date and place of enlistment Broadmeadows 14/6/1914

Physical details on enlistment 26 years and 11 months

Religion Church of England

Occupation surveyor

Date and place of death He died in the Second Scottish
General Hospital on 4/12/1918 bronchial pneumonia associated with influenza.

Location of grave or memorial

He was buried in the Private Burial Grounds of Blackfaulds Avon Bridge Linthigow Scotland

Relationship to Woorayl Shire

He was married to Mary Kenny of the pioneer family

Military History

His wife was a Kenny and she was living in Leongatha and working for Miss Shingler
16/12/14 He enlisted at Broadmeadows
He was 3 years in the Seaforth Highlanders
22/12/14 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles
3/5/15 He joined his battalion at Gallipoli
18/5/15 He was admitted to the Australian Field Ambulance with a contusion of the right eye
19/5/15 He transferred to No 11 ccs
23/5/15 He joined the battalion
29/7/15 He is admitted to No1 casualty clearing station with influenza and conjunctivitis went to Mudros on Lemnos to No 1 stationary hospital
3/8/15 He rejoined his unit
23/8/15 He had influenza and went to Egypt on the Guilford Castle going to Alexandria and them Port Said
28/8/15 He is transferred to Convalescent camp Cairo
10/2/16 He joined the 58th Battalion
2/4/16 He transferred to the 57th Battalion
29/5/16 He was in hospital with tonsillitis
3/7/16 He was discharged to duty still in Egypt
2/8/16 He embarked Alexandria and disembarked Marseilles 8/8/16
He went to London to the King George Hospital in Stamford St Harefield
2/11/16 He was granted furlough
27/11/16 He was admitted to Harefield Hospital
In May 1917 he went to the 67th Battalion
He was in trouble through 1917
12/9/17 He went to France from Southampton
He was in trouble again and in hospital to March 1918
He went back to England to Weymouth to The Second Command Depot
23/10/18 He went to 2nd Scots General Hospital Edinburgh while on leave
5/12/18 He died of bronchial pneumonia
He had a private burial in the grounds of Blackfaulds Avon Bridge Linlithgow. The service was taken by Reverend Garvie
At the funeral were his mother, sisters, cousins and Mr. Flett