KINSELLA, Edward Parnell
| Service Number: | 521 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glen Innes, NSW, June 1893 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St. Patrick's College; Sydney University |
| Occupation: | Draughtsman |
| Died: | 20 December 1967, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 521, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 521, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
A well-known Sydney barrister, Edward Parnell Kinsella, has been appointed District Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in the southwestern district of New South Wales. The new judge was born at Glen Innes in June, 1893, and received his early education at
the Presentation Convent, Wagga Wagga, from which he gainetf a bursary to St. Patrick's College, Goulburn. He entered the Lands Department, and when war broke out he enlisted in the original Second Battalion. He served at Gallipoli and in France, and in
1916 obtained a commission in the 54th Battalion, in which he served until the end of the war.
Returning to Australia, he rejoined the Lands Department and took
up the study of Law, graduating in 1927. He remained in the service of the Lands Department until 1930, when he resigned to contest the George's River seat at the State election. He won the seat, but was defeated at the general election in 1932.
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