Patrick John GEOGHAN

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GEOGHAN, Patrick John

Service Number:	2455
Enlisted:	24 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 8 February 1870
Home Town:	Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Boilermaker's assistant
Died:	Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 9 January 1848, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-157. 41.
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World War 1 Service

24 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2455, 1st Infantry Battalion
22 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 2455, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
22 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 2455, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney
9 Nov 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Pioneer Battalion
5 Jul 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2455, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Medically unfit - chronic bronchitis and overage

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.

73 years ago today, on the Saturday morning of the 10th January 1948 (4 funerals on this day), Private Patrick John Geoghan, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-2455), boilermaker's assistant ((Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), from "Fontenoy", Llewellyn Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 24 Albert Street, Lambton N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 77. ANGLICAN 3-157. 41.

Born at Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales on the 8th February 1870 to Bernard and Elizabeth Geoghan; husband of Matilda Joanna Maria Geoghan nee King (married 1898, Sydney, N.S.W., died 1952), Patrick enlisted February 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W., returning home June 1917, being discharged medically unfit (chronic bronchitis and overage) on the 5th July 1917.

Mr Geoghan’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates (photos, unveiled on the 12th March 1921, 322 names inscribed, 44 Fallen, 335 names now inscribed).
There is no indication inscribed on Patrick’s plaque that he served with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies to honour his sacrifice for God, King and Country.

Lest We Forget.

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