Colin Ray MCBRIDE

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MCBRIDE, Colin Ray

Service Number:	SX9418
Enlisted:	20 July 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	9th Division Cavalry Regiment
Born:	Riverton, South Australia, 29 August 1918
Home Town:	Naracoorte, Naracoorte and Lucindale, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk, S.A.R.
Died:	Died of wounds, Egypt, 25 July 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt Grave Reference: 3. D. 6
Memorials:	Rocky Creek 9th Division Cavalry Regiment & 2nd / 9th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Naracoorte War Memorial

World War 2 Service

20 Jul 1940:	Involvement Lance Corporal, SX9418
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, SX9418
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), 9th Division Cavalry Regiment
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography

Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA: 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 18 March 1941

Presentation To Soldier

Trooper Colin McBride, Second son of Mr. A. E. McBride, Stationmaster at Tailem Bend, has been spending the week-end with relatives in Mount Gambier. On Thursday last, in the Tailem Bend Institute, a meeting of townsfolk was held in honour of several A.I.F. boys. Mr. Bartlett, Chairman of the Tailem Bend Welfare Committee presided, and in making a presentation of a handsome money belt, wished Trooper McBride a continuance of good health and a safe return. Tea was afterwards held at the returned Soldiers' quarters. Trpr. McBride served three months training at Glenburnie with the 3rd Light Horse, transferred to a mechanised unit, and is now at Balcombe, Victoria.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78141426

Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA: 1861 - 1954) Tuesday 4 August 1942

Tpr. Colin McBride Dies in Egypt

Word was received by Miss J. McBride, of Queen's Avenue, yesterday morning that her nephew, Trooper Colin R. McBride, had died of wounds received while in action in Egypt. Information was received last week that he had been severely wounded.

Aged 22, Tpr. McBride was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. McBride, of St, Peters, and a grandson of Mr. A. H. McBride, of Queen's Avenue, Mount Gambier. He left Australia in March, 1941, with a cavalry regiment.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78115175

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