Edward O'SHEA

O'SHEA, Edward

    Service Number: 3507
    Enlisted: 18 November 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Milton, New South Wales, Australia, 1868
    Home Town: Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
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    World War 1 Service

    18 Nov 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3507, 56th Infantry Battalion
    24 Jan 1917: Embarked Private, 3507, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
    27 Apr 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 63rd Infantry Battalion, From 56th Battalion, at Windmill Hill
    19 Sep 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 56th Infantry Battalion, From 63rd Battalion
    9 Dec 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3507, 56th Infantry Battalion
    27 Feb 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3507, 56th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to senility

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    In a medical report of November 1917 Edward admitted to being aged 48 years, five years older that what he had stated on enlistment which makes year of birth 1868

    Next of kin given as his niece Kathleen O'Shea of 'Lasevade', Queen Street, Ashfield, NSW

    Commenced return to Australia on 8 December 1918 aboard HT Leicestershire disembarking on 22 January 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

    Medal: British War Medal

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