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Got this today which may explain the fake name-
Dear Natalie,

Thank you for your request for information on the First World War service of Reginald Kingsley McBeath.

I have had a look through the Neil C Smith book: What’s in a Name, using all the possible options that you offer: Patman, Schipp, and birth at Paddington.

Unfortunately I have not had any luck, so you may need to continue researching through your own family records.

Minimum enlistment age for the First World War was 18, but with parental permission. Without parental permission the age was 21, so if an 18 year old decided to enlist without his parents’ permission, he may well have changed his name.

Regards,

Research Centre
Australian War Memorial

thanks Mum Mum for looking into it... just wondering, how long does the Transcribing person you recommended usually take???

thanks all... I have spent hours perusing records by towns etc... will have to try and get some more information I think.

I was thinking that too that he wouldn't be underage but if he signed up in 1914 he wouldn't have been 21.  Yes their father was James who died in 1909.   Thank you for looking into it for me 

perhaps.. I was only told this by my father the other day. He said it wasn't worth getting or something. I get what you mean though. If they didn't know his name or where he lived 40 years later how would they offer it. I will have to question him further.