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David MacPherson
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| Next of Kin: | J. G. MacPherson - Brother ; Red hill, Boorowa, NSW.
John and Georgina MACPHERSON - Parents ; Native of Laing, Scotland. |
| Biographical notes: | His Brother J. G. McPherson woned a lugger called the Flying Scotchman, and was a trepanger before the war.
“Writing ,from Blackboy Hills Camp, near Perth, W A., under date 8th November, Mr. David Campbell Macpherson, formerly color-sergeant in the Sutherland Highlanders, states: Just a few lines to let you know I got on all right after leaving Darwin. From Fremantle I went to Perth, and then joined down there. We are training hard and getting fit to knock the Germans out. There are a great many Scotchmen in the 16th (16th Infantry, W.A., Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force) so) I am well pleased. We hope soon to get away." Northern Territory Times and Gazette Thursday 3 December 1914 p.11 |
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| Date of Enlistment: | 30 October 1914. |
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| Date of Death: | 27 April 1915. |
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| Service History: | 12 years Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders 91st/93rd. Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914 |
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Service Record
Roll of Honour Embarkation Roll Nominal Roll "NEWS & NOTES", Northern Territory Times and Gazette Thursday 3 December 1914 p.11 Gill, Ian. Bloody angle, Bullecourt & beyond : 16th Battalion A.I.F. 1914-1919. Perth, W.A. : I. Gill, 2008 Longmore, C. The Old Sixteenth : being a record of the 16th Battalion A.I.F., during the Great War, 1914-1918. Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2007, 1929. |
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