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PARNELL, Oliver Claude Gillespie
| Service Number: | 1087 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Orroroo, South Australia, 11 March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Orroroo, Orroroo/Carrieton, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Orroroo Public School |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Mix of angina pectoris, myocarditis and arteriosus sclerosis, 6 January 1940, aged 49 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Orroroo Cemetery, S.A. |
| Memorials: | Orroroo District Roll of Honour WW1, Orroroo Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1087, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 31 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 1087, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 31 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 1087, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sapper, 1087, 4th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Tyson Pycroft
Oliver Claude Gillespie Parnell was born on the 11th of March 1890, to his father, Richard Thomas Parnell and his mother, Eliza Townsend. He was born and raised in Orroroo, with five siblings and went to school at Orroroo Public School,. He also played for the Orroroo brass band and worked a job as a shoeing smith.
Oliver married Mabel Isobel Nutt on the 17th of July 1913, and started a family with their first child, Hurtle John Thomas Parnell, born on the 2nd of November 1913.
Oliver enlisted for the Australian Imperial Force on the 12th of May, 1915, at the age of twenty five and was assigned into the 27th Infantry Battalion. Oliver left to go to war on the 31st of May 1915, leaving behind his one and only child.
A year after Oliver left for war, he was transferred to another battalion, the 2nd Pioneer Battalion and was wounded and evacuated to hospital.
Oliver was discharged back to Australia on the 2nd of January 1919, due to sickness. He was issued the three standard service medal - the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal adn the Victory Medal. He lived in Black Forrest with his wife and child. Oliver would have two more children after his return, Lorna Mary Parnell on the 27th of February 1920, and Aileen Decima Parnell, on the 7th of December 1921. On the 6th of January 1940, Oliver passed away from a mix of angina pectoris, myocarditis and arteriosclerosis, at the age of 49..
Oliver was buried at the Orroroo cemetery, plot B8.
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