William Brown Given MCCAHON

Birthplace
Warwick
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
School Teacher
Enlisted
14-October-1916
Place
Toowoomba
Age
37
Status
Widower
Service No
7295
Rank
Private
Unit
9th Battalion, 24th ReinforcementS
Embarked
24-January-1917
Place
Sydney
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Died of wounds
Date
12-August-1918
Place
Daours, Belgium
Cemetery or Memorial
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Notes

Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial and St Stephen’s Uniting Church Toowoomba Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial.

 

William McCahon spent six months training in England before arriving in France in October 1917. On 10 August 1918 he was wounded in action near Amiens and died of his wounds at the 55th Casualty Clearing Station at Daours two days later.