Eric Gordon (Bob) MCGLINCHY

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MCGLINCHY, Eric Gordon

Service Number:	NX47270
Enlisted:	27 August 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Training Battalion
Born:	Manilla, New South Wales, Australia, 27 November 1913
Home Town:	Sandy Hollow, Muswellbrook, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Malaya, 24 January 1942, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Singapore War Memorial, Singapore Col 132
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery

World War 2 Service

27 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX47270, 1st Infantry Training Battalion

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

From the website 230battalion.org.au

Mumps 18.8.1941

Killed in action Yong Peng

Private D Company 17 Platoon

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Eric Gordon McGLINCHY was born in Manilla, NSW on 27th November, 1913

His parents were James Ernest McGLINCHY & Mary Elizabeth LANCASTER who married in Manilla in 1905

He enlisted in Newcastle with the 1st Infantry Training Battalion (6th Infantry Training Brigade and embarked on 29th July 1941 on the HMT Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt

Eric was Killed in Action in Malaya on 24th January, 1942 - no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Singapore Memorial in the Kranji War Cemetery

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