| Regimental number | 2014 |
| Place of birth | Durham Terrace, Yatala, South Australia |
| School | Le Fevre Peninsula Public School, South Australia |
| Other training | Book-keeping |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Baker's carter |
| Address | Craigie Street, Birkenhead, South Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 20 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs. Mary Sinclair, Craigie Street, Birkenhead, South Australia |
| Previous military service | Served for 4 years in the School Cadets, 3 years in the Military Cadets and 3 years in the Naval Cadets and Reserve. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 9th Light Horse Regiment, 14th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/14/3 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A69 Warilda on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Sapper |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 5th Divisional Signal Company |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 22 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 26 |
| Family/military connections | Brother: 2225 Pte John Archibald Halliday SINCLAIR, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, returned to Australia, 13 February 1917; Cousins: Lt William Stewart McKAY, 50th Bn, killed in action (in France by a German Prisoner), 24 April 1918; 377 Pte Thomas Symington McKAY, 27th Bn, died of disease, 29 September 1915.~ |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
