McGregor, Alexander Robert
SURNAME
McGregor
NAME
Alexander Robert
PLACE OF BIRTH
Cooktown
OCCUPATION
Farmer
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Townsville
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
31/01/1916
NEXT OF KIN
Mr A.R. McGregor (father), Cairns Qld, later Cassowary Creek, Mossman, QLD
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Owned a cane farm at Mossman
REGIMENT 1
Machine Gun
RANK
Corporal
CAMPAIGN 1
Western Front
DATE DISCHARGED
18/09/1919
OTHER INFORMATION
12th Machine Gun Company.; 4th Machine Gun Bn; Military Medal plus British War Service and Victory Medals.
STORY OUTLINE
Alexander Robert McGregor managed a farm at Cassowary Creek, Mossman before enlisting in January 1916.
He embarked on SS Hawkes Bay from Sydney on 20/04/16 to Alexandria Egypt and on to Plymouth England.
He joined the 12th Australian Machine Gun Company in Etaples France on 30/08/1916. In January 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal and then in the following June he was promoted to Corporal. He was recommended for the award of Military Medal on 06/07/1917 and shortly afterward admitted to hospital, later to rejoin his unit in October after being wounded, probably at Ypres. In January 1918 he was sent to the home base of the Belmont Park Machine Gun Training Depot near Grantham, and after nearly nine months, presumably as a machine gun instructor, he rejoined his unit back in France in October 1918. Hospitalised again in March 1919 and transferred back to England he was repatriated to Australia on hospital ship 'Swakopmund' and disembarked Sydney on 02/08/1919.
Bob McGregor resumed farming at Cassowary Creek, then in 1934 bought a cane farm near Edmonton south of Cairns.
He died at Gordonvale in 1978.
SERVICE NO
1689
