Christopher Joseph O'DEA MM

Badge Number: 30398, Sub Branch: Peterborough, SA
30398

O'DEA, Christopher Joseph

    Service Number: 2407
    Enlisted: 22 June 1915, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Terowie, South Australia, 14 May 1894
    Home Town: Peterborough (Formerly Petersburg), South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Locomotive cleaner
    Died: Peterborough South Australia, 15 November 1981, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Peterborough Cemetery, SA
    Catholic Section Burial 18th November 1981 Plot 1668 Buried with Jeanne O'Dea
    Memorials: Peterborough 'LOCO' S.A.R. Roll of Honor, Peterborough St Anacletus Catholic Church Honour Board WW1, Terowie Institute Honour Board
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    World War 1 Service

    22 Jun 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
    13 Oct 1915: Embarked Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Adelaide
    13 Oct 1915: Involvement Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
    8 Nov 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion
    4 Mar 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Wound to the leg. Transferred to England on 8 March 1917
    11 Mar 1917: Honoured Military Medal, For conspicuous bravery in action at Malt Trench near Warlencourt as a bomb carrier. Commonwealth Gazette. 140 on 27 August 1917
    24 Apr 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 70th Infantry Battalion, From 27th Battalion
    20 Oct 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 27th Infantry Battalion
    10 Jun 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, Third occasion.
    2 Sep 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, Fourth occasion. Wound to the left thigh. Invalided to England 4 September 1918
    6 May 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 4th Military District
    Date unknown: Wounded 2407, 27th Infantry Battalion

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Martin O'Dea and Bridget O'Dea nee Hegarty of Parnaroo, SA.

    Commenced return to Australia on 28 January 1919 aboard HT Ceramic disembarking on 14 March 1919

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

    During January 1921c Christopher married Jeanne Agnes Saunderson in St. Anacletus, Peterborough, SA

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