MCGIVERN, John Bernard
| Service Number: | 496 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915, Senior Cadets |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 18 May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St. Mary's and Marist Brothers School, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk (officer, Hunter District Water Supply Board, accounts branch) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 28 January 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie Plot V, Row H, Grave No. 10 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR, Hamilton St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle Honour Roll, Hamilton St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle Honour Roll, Newcastle Hunter District Water Supply & Sewerage Board Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 496, 30th Infantry Battalion, Senior Cadets | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 496, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 496, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 28th January 1917, Private John Bernard McGivern, referred to as Barney, 30th Battalion (Reg No-496), clerk (officer, Hunter District Water Supply Board, accounts branch), from "Newry", or "Rosteron" or "Rostrevor", or "Rostresor", Young Street, Carrington, New South Wales, was Killed in Action, age 19 years 8 months. Place and cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 18th May 1897 to James Joseph (died 17.7.1920, Wickham, N.S.W., age 54), and Catherine D McGivern nee McNamara (died 25.7.1912, Carrington, N.S.W., age 46, mother of 2 sons, 1 daughter), Barney enlisted on the 18th July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 9th November 1915.
Wounded in action - 20.7.1916 (GSW left knee, severe, Battle of Fromelles).
The was a report of a letter sent from the front by Private Webber Jones (coal trimmer from Little Young Street, Carrington, New South Wales, enlisted 26.7.1915, 30th Battalion, Reg No-448, KIA 4th November 1916, Flers, France, age 28, resting at AIF Burial Ground, Flers, France. Plot IX Row B Grave 4, memorialised at parent's gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery - ANGLICAN 1-30. 56), states that Barney had been wounded. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133837815 -
Mr. McGivern is resting at Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, France. Plot V Row H Grave 10.
Place of Association - Carrington, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Barney’s name has been inscribed on the St. Mary's-Marist Bros' School (Newcastle) Honour Roll, Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor, Carrington Memorial Gates, The Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Barney has been memorialised at the McGivern gravesite, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 1-B Spec. 66.
Older brother Patrick Joseph (born 19.12.1890, Carrington, N.S.W., married railway signalman from Devonshire Street, West Maitland, New South Wales or "Rostresor", Young Street, Carrington, N.S.W. and 1 Telford Avenue, Ashfield, N.S.W. (1952), enlisted 15.2.1917, 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, Reg No-2175, admitted to hospital 5.2.1918 (trench fever), RTA 7.3.1919, 1st Battalion, died 29.9.1958, Katoomba, N.S.W., age 67, not officially commemorated).
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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