MALONE, John Joseph
| Service Number: | 6132 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 21 June 1882 |
| Home Town: | Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 18 September 1918, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6132, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6132, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6132, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide |
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Malone John Joseph was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in June 1882. He spent his entire life before enlisting in Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia. Despite being 33 years old, he was never married; it is unclear whether he lived with his parents or on his own. He also had a sister, Nellie Malone, who was his next of kin. According to his recruitment form, his occupation was a labourer. He was 5 feet 7 inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes.
Malone enlisted in the army as an A.I.F. (Australian Imperial Force) Private in the A.I.F. Exhibition Camp in January 1916, at the age of 33, without having previously served in the military. On August 12, 1916, he embarked from Australia for Etaples, France. He arrived in Etaples on 23 October 1916 and after a few weeks of arriving, he proceeded to his unit.
His military number was 6132 and was initially assigned to the 2nd Depot Battalion before being reassigned to the 70th Infantry Battalion (depots were the locations for gathering, sorting, and delivering reinforcements to units in the field). Soon after that, he was reassigned to the 10th Infantry Battalion.
While Malone was in the 10th Infantry Battalion, he fought in France at Flanders, West-Vlaanderen and Belgium.
He was admitted to the hospital on November 30, 1916, after becoming ill with bronchitis. He was then admitted to a hospital in Etritat but was transferred to Britain on 13th December 1916. By the 23rd January 1917 he had left hospital and marched in to No. 4 Depot Wareham and returned to his unit. On the 25th January 1918 he was in trouble for not obeying orders and was fined 21 days of pay.
He spent more time in hospital in January 1918 with a sprained ankle. This was diagnosed as a fracture in February and he returned to hospital in England for treatment. He rejoined his unit and was later wounded in July 1918 and after treatment he rejoined his uni on the 2nd August 1918.
John Joseph Malone, who was 35 years old, died in France on September 19, 1918, wounded in action. Unfortunately, it is unknown where he was interred. We will remember him.
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