O'REILLY (O'RIELLY), Hugh
| Service Number: | 2207 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Norwood, South Australia, , date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
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World War 1 Service
| 23 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2207, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
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| 23 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2207, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide |
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Life before the war
Hugh O’Reilly was one of the many young men who embarked on the journey to Europe where they would fight for their country. Hugh O’Reilly was born in 1894 in Adelaide, Australia and only 21 when he made the journey to war. In Adelaide he worked as a labourer. He was single and had no kids. Hugh had blue eyes, fair skin tone, auburn hair and he was five foot ten. He grew up in a family of a four. His sister, Katherine Taylor, his mother and father.
Life during the war
He departed for the war on the 23rd of June 1915. He was one of the approximately 800 people in the 10th Infantry Battalion. Throughout the war it was clear that Hugh O’Reilly did not like the war due to the fact that he was caught with being absent without leave many times. Throughout the fours years that he spent at war he was caught four times being absent without leave.
At 9:15am on the 4th of April in 1916 he was caught with absent without leave until he was caught by military police at 10:00pm in Cairo.
Absent without leave at 9:30pm on the 21st of October in 1916 to 8:30am
On May the 17th in 1917 he was caught with absent without leave from 7:30am to 8:30am
6pm 7th/6/1917 – he absented himself - 8:30pm 12th/6/1917 – until he was caught by the military police. He was found not guilty of desertion but found guilty of absent without leave. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour in prison.
He was discharged from prison on the 16th of August 1918. He then went back to war on the 17th of August in 1918.
Life after the war
He returned home on the 28th of July in 1919 after serving four years and hundred and thirty-nine days abroad.
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