Kenneth Milton MacPhee

Service number: 1777

Rank: Corporal

Unit: 3rd Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 23 August 1915, aged 26, Dardanelles

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta

War Grave Register notes:

MacPHEE, Cpl. Kenneth Milton, 1777. 3rd Bn. Australian Inf. Died of wounds 23rd August 1915. Age 26. Son of William Alexander MacPhee and Adeline Mary MacPhee of Coonamble, NSW; husband of Winnie E MacPhee, of 241 Pittwater Rd., Manly, New South Wales. A. VIII. 1.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Kenneth MacPhee was born in 1889 at Strathfield, and was a woolpresser to trade. He enlisted on 27 October 1914 and fought at Gallipoli. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1915.

He died of wounds at hospital on Malta on 23 August 1915.

He was listed on Manly War Memorial as McPhee rather than MacPhee; he signed MacPhee.

See notice in SMH 5 September 1915, p9, 6 September 1915, p8; also 10 September 1915, p6. His son, Ken McPhee, was one of the Australian contingent which fought in the Spanish Civil War.