Alan Albert MCGRATH

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MCGRATH, Alan Albert

Service Number:	N460936
Enlisted:	28 January 1942
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2nd/9th Field Regiment
Born:	Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia, 28 March 1914
Home Town:	Drummoyne, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Injuries (Truck accident), Australia, 14 February 1944, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium T A 5
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, N460936

World War 1 Service

28 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, N460936, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, Millers Point, NSW

World War 2 Service

28 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N460936, 9 Field Regiment AMF

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Two Soldiers Killed
By Truck
SYDNEY, Mon.— When a military truck skidded and over turned on Holdsworthy Road, a few miles from Liverpool, today, six soldiers were thrown to the ground. Two of them were killed and others injured. Those killed were Gunner James Walsh and Gunner Allan McGrath.
The injured were Sergt. Abbott, Lance Bombardier James, Lance Bombardier Walsh and Gunner Lawrence Elsworthy. The last-named received a probable fracture of the skull.

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