Roger McKinnon

Roger McKinnon was born on 30 March 1883 in South Shields, Durham. He played for Callies in 1913 and was “one of the 14 Caledonian players and officials who were guests of the Fremantle Caledonian Society at a farewell function prior to the whole team signing up en masse in 1915. Roger served on the Western Front and fortunately survived the war. He was to be one of only five who attended a welcome home function organised by the society in 1919.” He made a steady rise through the ranks and was a warrant officer by war’s end. Wounded in action in France, he was finally discharged in early 1920. After the war he became a committee man for Fremantle Athletic “a merger of the old Port club and the Caledonians” before his teaching profession took him to country Western Australia. He died on 4 June 1968 in Perth at the age of 85, and was buried in Nedlands.