Charles HENNEGAN

HENNEGAN, Charles

Service Numbers: 20, Q201830
Enlisted: 20 August 1914, Enoggera, Queensland
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 3rd (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born: Mount Morgan, Queensland, 30 March 1894
Home Town: Mount Morgan, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling: Mount Morgan Central Boys' State School
Occupation: Electrician
Died: Natural causes, Kenmore Repatriation Hospital, Queensland, 26 July 1981, aged 87 years
Cemetery: Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Location: Columbarium 12, Section: Section 4
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World War 1 Service

20 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 20, Enoggera, Queensland
22 Sep 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 20, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
22 Sep 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 20, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne
26 Jul 1916: Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Invalided to Australia due to being medically unfit

World War 2 Service

22 Apr 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, Q201830
22 Apr 1942: Enlisted Private, Q201830, Brisbane, Queensland
23 Apr 1942: Involvement Q201830, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces, Page missing from Enlistment Register
21 Oct 1945: Discharged Lieutenant, Q201830, 3rd (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

'AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

Our Mount Morgan correspondent, writing last evening, says :-"Mr. C. Hennegan, Dee-street, Has been advised that his son, Sapper Charles Hennegan, is in hospital, London. sick." from Morning Bulletin 6 Oct 1915 (nla.gov.au)

'LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Our Mount Morgan correspondent, writing on Monday says :— " Mrs. P. Hennegan, Dee-street, wishes it made known, with reference to the statement that her son, Sapper C. Hennegan of the Third Field Engineers, has been dangerously wounded, that she has not had any advice to this effect." from The Capricornian 4 sep 1915 (nla.gov.au)

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