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Latest Edition to Unit Collection, an Australian:

JOHN JAMES McCORMACK

NAME: MCCORMACK, JOHN JAMES
REGIMENTAL NO: 155
RANK: TROOPER
DATE OF BIRTH / PLACE OF BIRTH: SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA
AGE ON ENLISTMENT: 23
OCCUPATION: NEWS AGENT
RELIGION: NONE SHOWN
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE
C.S. ENLISTMENT DATE: NOVEMBER 22ND, 1901, DURBAN
PROMOTED / TONS: NONE SHOWN
C.S. RELEASE DATE: MAY 2ND, 1902, IN CAPE TOWN (MEDICALLY UNFIT)
CHARACTER ON DISCHARGE: GOOD
FORMER SERVICE: SCOTT'S RAILWAY GUARDS (517) (DISMISSED FOR MISCONDUCT)
2ND IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE
BRABANT'S HORSE
SUBSEQUENT SERVICE: NONE SHOWN (SEE BELOW)

MEDALS: Q.S.A. - CAPE COLONY / ORANGE FREE STATE / TRANSVAAL / SOUTH AFRICA 1901 / 1902

NOTES/REMARKS:

NEXT OF KIN: SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA

REFERENCES:

TNA, WO 126/17, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Canadian Scouts
TNA, WO 126/11, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Brabant's Horse
TNA, WO 126/60, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Imp. Lght Horse
TNA, WO 126/28, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Scott's Railway Gds.
TNA, WO 100/287, Canadian Scouts Medal Roll – Page's 305 / 312 / 337
TNA, WO 127/4, Local Forces Nominal Rolls – Can. Scouts Pages 62/180/502



QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 1899, (type 3 reverse), - five clasps - Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. 155 Tpr: J.McCormack. Candn: Scouts. Impressed. Toned, small dig near top edge on reverse, a few very small edge nicks, otherwise good very fine.

Trooper John James McCormack, born at Bendigo, Vic; served with Canadian Scouts from 22Nov1901 to 02May1902 and discharged Medically Unfit; noted address on file Mr J.C.McCormack, Pitt Street, Redfern, Sydney (source: Nominal Roll WO127).

John James McCormack also served with 4Bn Australian Infantry Forces in WWI under regimental number 1304. When he enlisted at Rosehill, Sydney, NSW he stated his occupation as bushman, his age as 35 and his next-of-kin as his sister, Mrs R. U. Kenny of Mosman, Sydney, NSW. He served at Gallipoli and was twice wounded, on 9 May 1915 with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and then again on 7 August 1915 with gunshot wounds to the right hand and right knee. He returned to Australia on 17 March 1916 and was discharged on 12 September 1916 as medically unfit with ankylosis of the right knee joint.





Mike

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (38961 Tpr: A. Mc.K. Milligan. Canadian Scouts.);
1914-15 Star (43536 Dvr: A. Mc.K. Milligan. 1/Can: Div: A.C.);
British War and Victory Medals (43568 Gnr. A. M. Milligan. C.F.A.)

Albert McKingoun Milligan was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 19 October 1881 and served with the Canadian Scouts in South Africa during the Boer War, and then with the Canadian Field Artillery during the Great War, having attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Corps at Valcartier on 25 September 1914.