Remembered today 23/11/2008, on the GWF

[frev]

Remembered today 23/11/2008, on the GWF

Pte Hugh Kenneth McGREGOR, 2697, 58th Bn AIF

Hugh Kenneth McGREGOR was born at Buninyong, Victoria in 1886, the second surviving son of John McGREGOR & Mary CAMERON. When he enlisted in the AIF at the age of 29, both his parents were dead, and he gave his only brother, John as his NOK. At the time, he was employed on a Station at Murgheboluc, and he enlisted at nearby Geelong on the 24/7/15. Sailing with the 6th reinforcements of the 23rd Bn, Hugh embarked on the Ulysses on the 27th of October, arriving in Egypt where they remained, not joining the end of the Gallipoli campaign.

During the rearrangement of battalions early the following year, he was transferred to the 58th Bn on the 23/2/1916, and they sailed to France on the 17th June on board the Transylvania, arriving on the 23rd. Hugh & his battalion were in the trenches at Montauban near Flers, when he was wounded in the stomach in Mild Trench on the 23/11/16. He could barely walk, but began to make his way back to the dressing station, and that was the last anyone saw of him.

Hugh’s name is listed amongst the missing on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, and he is also commemorated on his home town Memorial in Buninyong.

[Copper6197]

Thanks for that.

A short story of a life lived and proudly given...

May he rest in peace.

George

[eltoro1960]

Rest in Peace Hugh, one of many 'Aussie Jocks' , what a combination,the HMT Transylvania was not a pleasant ship to be on and she was sunk by a U-Boat in the Med, men from my village, who were in the Royal Scots, were on her when she the sunk. The story is told here.

John

[Waffenlandser]

Rest in peace.

You are remembered.

[Andrew P]

Thanks for Hugh's story Frev. May he rest in peace.