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McAleese, H.M., 38234

McCall, D.,

McCall, R.,

 

McCarthy, Thomas, also known as Thomas Scales 3733

Service No:	3733
Occupation:	Grocer
Address:	Lilydale
Date of Enlistment:	December 10, 1917
Age at Enlistment:	21 years and 11 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	At enlistment Thomas was 5′ 4 ¾”, weighing 134 lbs, with black hair, grey eyes and fresh complexion. However in 1919 he was recorded as 5′ 7″ with blue eyes.
Next of Kin:	Parents whereabouts unknown’ and a friend was given as next of kin – George scales of Anderson St, Lilydale. Mrs N. Scales was later noted as ‘legatee’.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	10/57th Battalion
Embarkation Details:	Thomas embarked at Melbourne on February 28, 1918 on the Nestor

Places and dates of service:

1918 April 20, disembarked Liverpool.
1918 April 20 – 1918 August 25, 14th Training Battalion, Codford.
1919 January 31 – 1919 February 14, Hurdcott.

Service injuries:Hospitalised with hernia and cartilage problems.

Returned to Australia:	August 20, 1919 on the Frankfurt.
Discharge Date:
Rank at Discharge:
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Shire of Lillydale Roll of Honour as McCarthy, T. St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Lilydale Honour Roll as Scales, T. Lilydale State School Honour Roll as Scales, T.

Family Story:

Thomas was born at Lilydale on December 12, 1895.
He signed a Statutory Declaration as McCarthy, about his birth date and name; however in 1917 the Government Statist claims indexes had been searched from 1894-1898 with no record of his birth found.

Attached to the Service Records of Thomas McCarthy is an application for enlistment dated November 10, 1917 at Flinders, in the name of Thomas Scales, grocer, with a postal address of Lilydale.
The Lilydale Progress Association congratulated Private T. Scales as a departing soldier. (Lilydale Express February 22, 1918).

T. Scales is noted as being on the Lilydale State School Honour Roll (Lilydale Express May 3, 1918).  On October 16, 1919, T. McCarthy was admitted to Lilydale RSL as a transfer member. On March 25, 1920. The RSL minutes record him as acquiring one of the available ‘suit lengths’. However Minutes of a month before, in another hand, February 12, 1920 list T. Scales as a financial member.

It seems the Lilydale community knew Thomas as Scales because he lived with them but he was born McCarthy.

An Ancestry search finds the Lilydale Cemetery grave of Joseph and Nellie Black (nee Scales). An Ancientfaces.com search finds and Alfred Thomas Scales born 1869 at Lilydale to George and Mary Scales (nee Twogood).

McCay, Hugh Finlay, 34182

Service No:	34182
Occupation:	Farmer
Address:	Not given
Date of Enlistment:	December 23, 1916
Age at Enlistment:	19 years and 1 month
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	At enlistment Hugh was 5′ 9″, weighing 123 lbs, with brown hair, brown eyes and fresh complexion.
Next of Kin:	Hugh McCay, Royal Mint, Vic., also Silvan – father
Rank on Enlistment:	Gunner
Unit Name:	12/21 F. A. Brigade
Embarkation Details:	Hugh embarked at Melbourne on May 11, 1917 on the Ascanius [also written Arcania]

Places and dates of service:

1917 September 16, ARTY March Reinforcemets.
1917 September 17, Gunner 12th FA Brigade.
1917 September 11- 1918 August 23, France and Belgium.
1919 March 3, discharged as invalid.

Service injuries:
1918 August 30, gassed in France, hospitalised at Devonport England.

 

Returned to Australia:	February 8, 1919 on the Somali.
Discharge Date:	Not given
Rank at Discharge:	Gunner
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Silvan Roll of Honour – F. McCay; Shire of Lillydale Roll of Honour – F. McCay.

Family Story:

Hugh was born at Kew in 1897 to J. Hugh McCay and Nellie McCay. They signed his consent form for enlistment in a letter addressed from 24 Victoria St, Brighton. Hugh was Presbyterian. [No further information found]

McClure, J.,

 

McComas, Charles Francis, 6

Service No:	6  (Navy)
Occupation:	Regimental Band Master
Address:	Surrey Hills
Date of Enlistment:	July 21, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	29 years 6 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 6¾ in tall, 10 stone, blue eyes, light brown hair, medium
Next of Kin:	Father Alfred Ernest McComas
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	32nd Btn.
Embarkation Details:	November 10, 1915 at Melbourne on HMAT Ascurius

Places and dates of service:

1915 December 7: to Suez Egypt.
1916 June 16: to Alexandria Egypt.
1916 June 23: to Marseilles France.
1917 June 1: attached to 8th Btn. Hd.Qrs (band duty).
1918 March 2: in the field France.
1918 August 11: Rouen Hospital (appendicitis) France.
1918 October 11: in the field France.
1919 March 26: sick (gastritis) France.
1919 May 12: to Weymouth England.

Service injuries: NIL

 

Returned to Australia:	August 20, 1919: to Melbourne on HMAT Port Melbourne
Discharge Date:	November 8, 1919.
Rank at Discharge:	Sergeant
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Memorials:	Montrose State School Honour Board, Shire of Lillydale Honour Board.

Family Story:

Charlie was born in 1886 in Albert Park to parents Alfred Ernest McComas and Jeanie Martin Brooke. In 1920 he married Anne Jane Knox, family is not known. His brother Robert served in the Navy (2720), and his sister was Mrs. Edith Ewan. His date and place of death is unknown, Anne died in 1985.

 

McComas, Robert, 2720

Service No:	2720 (Navy)
Occupation:	Bugler
Address:	“Pinehill” Montrose
Date of Enlistment:	February 18, 1913
Age at Enlistment:	17 years 10 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	Not given.
Next of Kin:	Father Alfred Ernest McComas
Rank on Enlistment:	Able Seaman
Unit Name:	Royal Australian Navy
Embarkation Details:	Not known

Places and dates of service:

1913-1920 Enlisted for 7 years.
1913 July 1: HMAS “Sydney” (4 years).
1914 November 9: “Sydney” destroyed/captured German raider “Emden”.
1916 April 19: Good Conduct Badge (1st).
1917 July 19: HMAS “Cerberus”.

Service injuries: NIL

 

Returned to Australia:	Not known
Discharge Date:	February 19, 1920 Williamstown
Rank at Discharge:	Petty Officer
Honours/Medals:	Not known
Memorials:	Not known

Family Story:

Robert was born at Montrose April 19,1895 to parents Alfred Ernest McComas and Jeanie Martin Brooke. He had a sister Edith (Mrs) Ewan and a brother Charles Frances, also in the Navy. In 1921 he married Mabel Edith Shepherd – family N/A. Robert died in 1963 aged 68 years, and Mabel died 1931 at Ivanhoe aged 41years.

McConachy, A.,

McCristal, Michael Patrick, 620

Service No:	620
Occupation:	Railway Employee
Address:	Lilydale / Mont Albert
Date of Enlistment:	September 29, 1914.
Age at Enlistment:	25 years 6 months.
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 9 ½ in tall, 143 lbs, blue eyes, fair hair, fair complexion.
Next of Kin: