Patrick Timothy CAVANAGH (MCMAHON)

CAVANAGH (MCMAHON), Patrick Timothy

Service Number: 1899
Enlisted: 30 December 1915, Enoggera, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Pioneer Battalion
Born: Beaudesert, Queensland, March 1887
Home Town: Nanango, South Burnett, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Station hand
Died: Killed in Action, France, 18 September 1918
Cemetery: Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Plot III, Row J, Grave 3, Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, Roisel, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nanango War Memorial
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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Born:  Patrick Timothy CAVANAGH (used Alias Patrick Timothy MC MAHON)
Born Beaudesert, Queensland

Father Patrick Cavanagh and Mother Annie Cavanagh, lived at Nanango, Queensland

Brother
John William Cavanagh
09/07/1916  Enlisted
Did Not Embark - Lost vision in right eye due to measles
20/09/1916  Discharged from service
Lived at Coyar, via Oakey, QLD

5356 Private Robert Cavanagh - 15th Infantry Battalion
14/01/1916  enlisted
20/04/1916  embarked Sydney, onboard HMAT SS Hawkes Bay
                   as a Private with 15th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement
06/10/1918  Married:  Wife Margaret Eliza May Cavanagh, at Camberwell, England
12/07/1919  returned to Australia onboard HT Indarra
02/11/1919  discharged from service

Sister:  Bridget G Bishop (nee Cavanagh)

Occupation at enlistment Station Hand

30/12/1915  Enlisted in Enoggera, QLD

12/04/1916  Embarked Sydney onboard RMS Mooltan
                   as a Private with 4th Australian Pioneers
18/05/1916  disembarked into Suez, Egypt

06/06/1916  embarked to join Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, ex Alexandria
15/06/1916  disembarked into Marseilles, France

14/08/1916  taken on strength 4th Pioneer Battalion, France

27/07/1917  granted leave (in the field)
07/08/1917  returned from leave

10/08/1917  sick to hospital
18/10/1917  rejoined 4th Pioneer Battalion in the field

18/09/1918  Killed in action, France
buried in:     isolated grave, North - North-West of Vermand

06/10/1919  Exhumed and reburied in:
                  Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France
                  Plot III, Row J, Grave No. 3

Medals:       British War medal (36087), Victory medal (35808)
                  Memorial Scroll and Plaque (352546)

His name is commemorated on Panel 173 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

His name is commemorated on the Nanango War Memorial.

Submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  19/03/2017.  Lest we forget.

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