Jack O'BRIEN MM

O'BRIEN, Jack

    Service Number: 1798
    Enlisted: 21 December 1914, Enlisted at Mildura, Victoria
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Minindee, New South Wales, Australia, 1893
    Home Town: Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 20 July 1970, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria
    Interred on 22 July 1970
    Memorials: Mildura Workingmans Club War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    21 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Mildura, Victoria
    20 Mar 1915: Embarked Private, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
    20 Mar 1915: Involvement Private, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
    30 Jun 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wound to the right hand
    19 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, Multiple face and head wounds
    23 Mar 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 65th Infantry Battalion, From 14th Battalion
    13 Sep 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Infantry Battalion
    30 Oct 1918: Honoured Military Medal, For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Ascension Wood on 18th September 1918. As his company moved through the Red Line he rushed well out in front and from a shell hole brought accurate fire on an enemy machine gun keeping it quite until the company was down the slope. In the bombing attack in the evening he was first bayonet man and moving well up ahead of his party did such excellent work with his bayonet that the enemy bombing party fled in panic. He personally accounted for five of the enemy with the bayonet and his rapid movement and drastic methods cleared the way appreciably for the party behind. His conduct had a most beneficial effect on his comrades. Commonwealth Gazette No. 115, on 10 October 1919
    29 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1798, 14th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Full name is John Thomas O'Brien but served as Jack O'Brien

    Son of Thomas O'Brien  and Sarah Mary O'Brien nee Perry of Madden Avenue, Mildura, Victoria.

    Commenced return to Australia on 9 March 1919 aboard HT Kashmir disembarking on 30 April 1919

    Medals: Military Medal, 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Husband of Florence Jane (Doreen) O'Brien nee Parfrey

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