Ewen McKinnon

Forenames

Ewen AWMM

Surname

McKinnon AWMM

Service number

23016 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

16 Oct 1879 Kiwi Jocks Research
Mandally, Glengarry, Inverness-Shire AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs McLean (sister), Police-station, Mallaig, Scotland AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

23016 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 54 or HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Rifleman AWMM 4th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Son of the late Angus McKinnon, of Polnonachon, Invergarry, Scotland. AWMM

Death

1 Jan 1917 AWMM
Age  39 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM I. F. 20. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10929007
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/291734/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/291734
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 33
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.