Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/01/1918

Date of Discharge

03/02/1920

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Referred to as 'Emmett'

Date of Birth

17/03/1896

Place of Birth

Mooroopna, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Margaret MacGillicuddy (mother), Kew, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

2 Division Engineers AIF

MacGillicuddy was a Naval Staff Clerk from 13 May 1913 to 16 February 1915. He entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He served with the 7th Field Company Engineers in France from September 1918 until the end of the war. He returned to RMC where he joined the staff as lecturer in military engineering from 1925 to 1929. He served with the 2/1 Pioneer Battalion during World War 2 and died at home in Mosman on 20 January 1948.

Description - height 6 feet 1 inch, grey eyes, fresh complexion, brown hair, Catholic.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
Alexander J. McGilvray, 'The Hallowed High Adventure', 1973 (p.58)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
AWM Collections Record: 091093
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au