Timothy Francis O'CONNELL

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O'CONNELL, Timothy Francis

Service Number:	6153
Enlisted:	26 October 1915, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Field Company Engineers
Born:	Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 1876
Home Town:	Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bridge Carpenter
Died:	Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, 4 July 1958, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Field Of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, NSW Methodist Section, Section 1, New Plot 1134
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

26 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 6153, 4th Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
20 Jan 1916:	Involvement Driver, 6153, 4th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
20 Jan 1916:	Embarked Driver, 6153, 4th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Runic, Sydney
10 Dec 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Field Company Engineers, From the 4th Field Company Engineers, in the field
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement 6153
8 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6153, 12th Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 5th Military District as medically unfit due to a malignant growth in the mediastinum

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Patrick O'Connell and Catherine Terese O'Connell nee Duggan of Collins Street, Piccadilly, Kalgoorlie, WA formerly of Brunswick, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 21 July 1917 aboard HT Euripides disembarking on 12 September at Fremantle, WA.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Post war he was a member of the Woolara Paddington RSL Sub Branch and in 1948 he was the Sub Branch Secretary.

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