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Kenneth Clinton McKIE

Date of birth15 December 1889
Place of birthSouth Brisbane, Queensland
SchoolWooloongabba and East Brisbane State Schools; Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationBank clerk
AddressEast Brisbane, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation26
Next of kinBrother-in-Law, Mr George L Elliott, c/o R M Gow and Co, Turbot Street, Brisbane, Queensland
Enlistment date15 November 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll16 November 1915
Rank on enlistment2nd Lieutenant
Unit name49th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/66/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A42 Boorara on 16 August 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll49th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularJoined the Bank of New South Wales, Warwick branch, 23 July 1906. Transferred to Roma branch, May 1910; to Longreach branch, October 1911; to Brisbane branch, May 1913.
FateDied of wounds 9 June 1917
Place of death or woundingMessines Ridge, Belgium
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialTrois-Arbres Cemetery (Plot I, Row P, Grave 2), Steenwerck, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
148
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert and Maria McKIE. Native of Brisbane, Queensland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Sources'Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour' (Sydney, 1921), p. 274.

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