Participant Info

Surname

McBain

First Name

William

Initial

R

Service Number

3189

Rank

private

Unit Served

14th Machine Gun Company, late 56th Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

August 30

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

December 20

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 12, image page 13

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

James G. and Annie E. McBain

Parental Address

94 Westbourne Street, Petersham

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Moruya (South Coast), December 2, 1891, educated Leichhardt Superior Public School, window dresser, enlisted August 9, 1915, embarked December 24, 1915.War service: Egypt, France, invalided 2nd Birmingham Hospital, England, December 6, 1916, suffe