Malcolm Hilliard MCDOUGALL MC, MID

MCDOUGALL, Malcolm Hilliard

Service Numbers: 574, V81583
Enlisted: 20 October 1914
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: Area Staff
Born: Sunbury, Victoria, Australia, 22 August 1891
Home Town: Sunbury, Hume, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Fitter
Died: 23 April 1971, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria
4th Ave Wall Niches (South Side), Wall 1, Section B, Niche 225
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World War 1 Service

20 Oct 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 574, Light Horse Reinforcements

World War 2 Service

14 Oct 1939: Enlisted V81583
19 Apr 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Captain, V81583, Area Staff

World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Corporal, 574, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
Date unknown: Embarked Corporal, 574, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop

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Biography contributed by Ross Martin

Malcolm Hilliard McDOUGALL was born in Sunbury. His father, Robert James McDougall worked at the Sunbury Asylum, and later at the Kew Asylum.

Malcolm was 23 yo when he joined the AIF on 22/10/1914. Because of prior military experience with the 38th Fortress Company he was appointed a Corporal on the day of enlistment.

He was assigned to the Light Horse Signals unit and left Australia aboard the HMAT Chilka on 2/2/1915.

He landed at Gallipoli on 16/5/1915 and stayed until evacuation on 18/12/1915.

He was appointed Sergeant 5/4/1916 and served with the 3rd Signals Troop, and later with the 5th Signal Troop. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieut on 16/2/1917 and later made up to Lieut. He was awarded an MID and later an MC for his excellent work. 

He returned to Australia and relinquished his commission on 24/12/1919.

In 1921/22 he was living in Foster, Gippsland, and in 1967 was living in West Meadows, an outer northern suburb of Melbourne.

 

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