Errol Sheridan St John MACKEN

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MACKEN, Errol Sheridan St John

Service Number:	7282
Enlisted:	27 September 1915, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	5th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Longueville, New South Wales, Australia, 25 October 1894
Home Town:	Longueville, Lane Cove, New South Wales
Schooling:	Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
Occupation:	Grazier
Died:	Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 23 August 1916, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lane Cove Great War Roll of Honour, Wagga Wagga Experiment Farm Great War Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

27 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7282, Sydney, New South Wales
18 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 7282, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
18 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 7282, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Sydney
23 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 7282, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , Battle for Pozières

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...7282 Driver Errol Sheridan St John Macken, 5th Brigade Australian Field Artillery, of Sydney, NSW. A farmer with four years service in senior cadets and one year with a Citizens Military Force (CMF) field artillery unit in Wagga Wagga, Dvr Macken enlisted with his younger brother 7283 Dvr Neville Aloysius Macken in October 1915. Both men left Australia with the 13th Battery for Egypt in November 1915, and were sent to France after spending three months in Alexandria. Dvr Errol Macken was killed in action at Pozieres on 23 August 1916, age 21." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Errol Sheridan St John MACKEN was born in 1894 in Longueville, Sydney, NSW

His parents were James Joseph MACKEN and Alice FOY who married in Sydney in 1886

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