MCKAY, Sam
| Service Number: | 18813 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station |
| Born: | Old Whittington, Derbyshire, England, January 1898 |
| Home Town: | Cottesloe, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Wapping Road School, Bradford |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Natural causes, Victoria Park, Western Australia, 17 February 1982 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 18813, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
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| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 18813, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne | |
| 29 Sep 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 22 Oct 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 8 Mar 1919: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 10 Mar 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 18813, 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Euskerchen, Germany | |
| 22 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 18813, 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, SS Konigin Luise, London for return to Australia - arriving Fremantle WA on 3 August 1919 | |
| 26 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 18813, 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Samuel McKay was born in the village of Old Whittingham, Derbyshire about 16 kilometers south-east of Sheffield in 1898 and educated at Bradford. The son of restaurant keeper and market gardener, Thomas McKay and his wife Sarah (nee Linsdale), he had two older sisters and a younger brother.
The family migrated to Australia in 1913, arriving in the SS 'Zealandic' on 8 December at Fremantle. The McKays settled in Cottesloe from where Sam enlisted in late September 1916. He went into camp with the Infantry Depot Battalion before being transferred to the Australian Medical Corps (AMC) in August 1917. This transfer appears to be as a consequence of a letter from his parents granting approval to his overseas service, before the age of 19, on the condition he was assigned to the AMC.
Embarking at Melbourne in HMAT A60 'Aeneas' on 30 October 1917, he arrived in England just after Christmas. He was sent to France in April 1918 and in August joined the 1st Australian General Hospital at Rouen.
Subsequently he served with the 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations at various locations in France, including Saint-Venant and Fretin. After the Armitice he was transferred to the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, serving for several months at Euskirchen, Germany in early 1919.
Sam McKay returned to Fovant Camp on the Salisbury Plain, England in May before embarking SS 'Konigin Luise' for his return to Australia, arriving at Fremantle on 3 August 1919.
In December 1920, he married Beatrice MacPherson at Perth. They were to have a daughter and a son.
Sam McKay died at Victoria Park, Perth in February 1982. His wife, Beatrice passed away in 1990.
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