Oscar KEENAN

Badge Number: 27258, Sub Branch: Parkside
27258

KEENAN, Oscar

Service Number: 2729
Enlisted: 20 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 53rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Bingara, New South Wales, Australia, 1884
Home Town: Bingara, New England, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: 25 September 1957, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

20 Mar 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2729, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
9 Aug 1915: Involvement Private, 2729, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
9 Aug 1915: Embarked Private, 2729, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney
13 Feb 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 53rd Infantry Battalion, From the 1st Battalion
19 Jul 1917: Imprisoned Taken prisoner at Fleurbaix while wounded. Interned in Dulmen, Germany
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Private, 2729, 53rd Infantry Battalion
18 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2729, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Joseph Keenan and Kate Keenan of the Bingara Hotel,  of Bingara, NSW. Brother of James Aloysius Keenan who returned to Australia during 1916 having served with the 20th Battalion

Commenced return to Australia on 5 March 1919 aboard HT Nevasa disembarking on the 26 April 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Husband of Olive Leonora Keenan of 2A Marion Place, Prosepct, SA.