Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial and Toowoomba Railway Honour Board.
On 25 April 1915 David McCarthy was among the first Australians ashore at Gallipoli. Later that day he was listed as missing. Fourteen months later an AIF Court of Enquiry confirmed he had been killed in action.
25 soldiers named on the Roll of Honour died during the Gallipoli campaign.