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 McCarthy, Wilfred Cyril, Private, 1573, 6th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Derby Enlisted Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Killed in action 8th May 1915 aged 21 Son of Edith Annie McCarthy, of 122, Macklin St., Derby, England, and the late David McCarthy. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey

1911 Census A coal merchant's clerk Son of Edith Annie McCarthy, a coal merchant, of 93, Ashbourne Road, Derby

(Information from his service record, National Archives of Australia) Wilfred Cyril McCarthy enlisted on the 16th December 1914 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was employed as a motor driver, and stated his next of kin as his mother, Edith Annie McCarthy, of 34, Garden Street, Derby. Five feet four inches tall, he weighed 104 pounds, had a fresh complexion, hazel eyes and fair hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had two vaccination marks on his left arm, a scar on his chin and a scar on the palm of his right hand.

 (Photograph and biographical information from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 1, page 233)


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