McKINLAY, Robert
(Service number 24534)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 5 April 1870 | Place of Birth | Kirkcaldie, Scotland |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Temuka | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Next of Kin | Mrs A. FREW (mother), Temuka, South Canterbury | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 16th Reinforcements, J Company | ||
| Date | 20 August 1916 | ||
| Transport | Navua | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 30 May 1954 | Age | 84 years |
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| Place of Death | Whanganui | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Cremated Whanganui; ahses interred Aramoho Cemetery, Whanganui | ||
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Biographical Notes
Robert Page McKinlay was the only child of Archibald McKinlay and Margaret née Page. In 1871, one year old Robert was at Pathhead, Fifeshire, Scotland with his mother and maternal grandparents. Margaret Page married Alexander Frew in 1876 in New Zealand. They had no children. Mr Frew was later the mayor of Temuka. Margaret died in 1923 at the Timaru Hospital. Robert was educated at Temuka School from 1883. R. McKinlay embarked from Liverpool on 16 November 1917 by the “Ruahine” and arrived back in New Zealand on 6 January 1918. He was discharged on 16 November 1917, no longer physically fit for War Service, in consequence of being overage. Robert married Helena May Northover (Lena) in 1922. Lena died in 1931, and Robert married secondly in 1952, to Alice Hopetoun Thompson.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 November 2019]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [09 November 2019]; Scotland Birth record (ancestry.com.au) [10 November 2019]; 1871 Scotland census (ancestry.com.au) [10 November 2019; Aramoho Cemetery records [09 November 2019]; Refer – Temuka Leader, 8 March 1923, 5 May 1925, Press, 9 March 1923, Timaru Herald, 8 January 1918 (Papers Past) [22 November 2013; 10 November 2019]
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