Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 15/01/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 11/10/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Queanbeyan NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 20/06/1880
- Place of Birth
- Kowen ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Monaro Street, Queanbeyan NSW (previously Kowen ACT)
- Occupation
- Motor driver
- Next of Kin
- Sarah McInnes (mother), Monaro Street, Queanbeyan NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 3351
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 18 Battalion AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honour, St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Queanbeyan
Notes
McInnes was a younger brother of George McInnes and uncle of Harry McInnes. He enlisted in January 1917 in Queanbeyan, embarking for England in July 1917. He arrived in France in January 1918 and served briefly with the 33rd Battalion before being transferred to the 18th Battalion in February 1918. He was hospitalised in August with dysentery before rejoining his unit at the end of September and taking part in the attack on the Beaurevoir Line. In March 1919 he was granted leave to attend Halley Industrial (UK) Ltd in Westminster but it was cut short so that he could return to Australia where he was discharged on 11 October 1919. McInnes moved to the Bowral district after the war and operated a piggery called 'Yedmandale' near Moss Vale in the 1940s. At the time of his death on 18 August 1965 he was living in Bowral. He is buried in Queanbeyan.
Description - height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 143 pounds, chest 33-37 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair, Presbyterian, scars on his left knee, left shin and right leg.
Sources
Narelle O'Rourke, 'A Country Nurse and Midwife', 1989
Marilyn Folger, 'McInnes Family of Gilbert and Mary', 1998
Queanbeyan Age - 27 March 1917, 24 April 1917
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Image courtesy of Catherine Genge