Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

16/07/1915

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Scotland

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Miner

Next of Kin

Brother of Mrs. Mary Kay, Royal Military College, Duntroon

Burial Place

VC Corner Australian Cemetery France

Service Number

686

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

30 Battalion AIF

Died (killed in action) at Fleurbaix near Fromelles, 20 July 1916

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 117, Canberra ACT
World War 1 Memorial, corner of Lowe St and Farrer Place, Queanbeyan NSW
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honour at St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Lowe Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Little is known about Inglis except that his sister lived at Duntroon and his name appears on local honour rolls. He gave his occupation as 'miner' and address as the Royal Military College, Duntroon when he enlisted in July 1915. Miners were employed in the Canberra district on various construction jobs such as the sewerage tunnels and the Cotter Dam or he could have worked as a day labourer. Inglis arrived in Marseilles, France on 23 June 1916 as a Private in C Company, 30th Battalion. The next month he was killed when a shell set his clothes on fire during the Battle of Fromelles on 20 July 1916.

There is no Roll of Honour Circular for this man. His nephew, Bob Kay served in the RAAF during World War 2.

Description - height 5 feet 4 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 34-37 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, fair hair, Presbyterian.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Queanbeyan Age - 22 August 1916, 25 August 1916
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'Hell Opened at Fromelles', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial