Profile

McWHINNEY, George E
(Service number 405)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Winchester, NZ

Enlistment Information

Date	14 September 1914	Age	29
Address at Enlistment	GPO, Freemantle, Western Australia
Occupation	Carpenter
Previous Military Experience	Timaru City Riffles, 3 years.
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mr A E Walsh [sic], Timaru, New Zealand. [Welch is correct spelling]
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	Australian Imperial Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	16 Battalion. C Company
Date	22 December 1914
Transport	HMAT A40 Ceramic
Embarked From	Melbourne, Australia	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	16th Bn

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
Service Medals	1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	1 April 1917	Age
Place of Death
Cause	Killed in Action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Australian National Memorial,Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial Wall, Timaru; Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Panel No. 80

Biographical Notes

Son of the late William and Ellen nee Ogden McWhinney

Sources

Anzacs Online (anzacsonline.net.au); GenForum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/); Austalian War Memoriala (wm.gov.au); Discovering Anzacs (http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/)

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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