Dennis Joseph O'DONOGHUE

Dennis Joseph O'DONOGHUE Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

O'DONOGHUE, Dennis Joseph

Service Number:	6326
Enlisted:	31 January 1916, Enlist4ed at Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	39th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cork, Ireland, 26 March 1886
Home Town:	Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tailor
Died:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 3 April 1941, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Interred on 4 April 1941.
Memorials:	South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6326, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlist4ed at Broadmeadows, Victoria
11 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 6326, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
11 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 6326, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
19 Jun 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 39th Infantry Battalion, From 5th Battalion
15 Jun 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6326, 39th Infantry Battalion
27 Jan 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6326, 39th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to synovitis of the knee

Help us honour Dennis Joseph O'Donoghue's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Christian name is sometimes spelt as Denis Joseph O'Donoghue.

Son of Patrick O'Donoghue O'Donoghue and Albina O'Donoghue nee Kelleher of Cork, Ireland.

Next of kin given as his sister Ellen (Nellie) O'Donoghue of High Street, Geelong, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia 19 October 1918 aboard HT Sardinia disembarking on 27 December 1918

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1919c Dennis married Mary Theresa Kennedy in Victoria

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia