KELLY, Daniel Reginald
| Service Number: | 3490 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 March 1917, Seymour, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia, 1900 |
| Home Town: | Mooroopna, Greater Shepparton, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 28 July 1974 |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Matthews Lawn Section - Plot: Row: R Grave: 70 |
| Memorials: | Mooroopna War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3490, Seymour, Victoria | |
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| 16 Jul 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3490, 58th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3490, 58th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Melbourne | |
| 26 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3490, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Merris (France), Gas | |
| 2 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3490, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Bernard Mees
Enlisted at 17 but never wanted to talk about his war experience later. He suffered war-related illnesses for much of the rest of his life and died in the Heidelberg repatriation hospital in 1974. He married in 1927 after getting work with the family of another member of his battalion and he and his young wife Eileen moved to Merriwagga, NSW, where he had been awarded a soldier-settlement block. After seven years of drought, they walked off the land and eventually settled in the Griffith area where he ran a motor business. He moved the family down to Melbourne in the 1950s and lived in East Bentleigh.
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