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BERGIN, Edward Patrick
Personal Details
Service Number: | 592 |
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Enlisted: | 27 September 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8th Machine Gun Company |
Born: | Queenstown, South Australia, Australia, 4 May 1899 |
Home Town: | Meadows, Mount Barker, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 17 September 1917, aged 18 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 31 No known grave, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
27 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 592, 8th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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17 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 592, 8th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
17 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 592, 8th Machine Gun Company, RMS Omrah, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Edward Joseph Bergin and Emily Anastasia(nee Beaber) Bergin. Later known as Emily Yelland; brother of Kathleen Bergin
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal