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Daniel SINCLAIR

Regimental number5764
Place of birthRob's Land, Yorker, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
SchoolClydebank, Scotland
Age on arrival in Australia26
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationButcher and cook
AddressLeura, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation27
Next of kinFather, D Sinclair, 25 Cambridge Avenue, Clydebank, Scotland
Enlistment date31 January 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name1st Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/18/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on 3 June 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularHe was in Canada for four/five years and went to America (California, Sacremento). Sailed from San Fransisco on the S.S. Ventura on 31 October 1915 for Sydney. He would have sailed for home but the Panama Canal was blocked and there was no boat for Norfolk or Liverpool and joined up in Sydney.
FateDied of wounds 5 October 1917
Place of death or woundingBelgium
Age at death28
Age at death from cemetery records29
Place of burialLijssenthoek Military Cemetery (Plot XX, Row R, Grave No. 19), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
30
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Daniel and Mary SINCLAIR, 28 Cambridge Avenue, Clydebank, Scotland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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