MCCORMAC, Martin
| Service Number: | N281291 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 October 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 21 November 1889 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stevedore |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 21 February 1958, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N281291 | |
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| 23 Feb 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N281291, 11 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Martin McCormac (Service No:N281291) served in the ACMF 11th Garrison Battalion (NSW) from 11 October 1941 to 23 February 1942. He had served in WWI as a Private (Service Nos:199 and 1815) with 13th Infantry Battalion in Gallipoli and Naval and Military Expeditionary Force Reinforcements (Rabaul Garrion and Kopoko Detachment).
Born in 1899 at st Leonards in Sydney NSW, Martin was the fourth of six children of Martin Joseph McCormac (b1854 in County Galway, Ireland) and Sarah Ellen Kennedy (b1858 in London, England). Martin Snr was an Artilleryman in Ireland, and a Probationary Police Constable (No:2585) in Sydney in 1875. Martin and Sarah married in 1878 in Sydney NSW where they settled and raised their family and Martin worked as a Police Constable, Grocer (1893) and Telegraph Operator (1903).
Martin was a Labourer in Sydney before enlisting in the AIF, and was in London in 1916 when he married first wife Elizabeth Pierce (b1900 in Berkshire, England). Martin and Elizabeth divorced in 1931 in Sydney NSW and both remarried - Martin in 1935 in Rockdale NSW to Elizabeth Louise Gordon (nee Hart; b1890 in Sydney, NSW). Martin and Elizabeth settled in Sydney where Martin worked as a Locksmith and Stevedore/Wharf Labourer/Waterside Worker. Elizabeth died in 1955 and Martin in 1958.