DRISCOLL, Wilfred
| Service Number: | 1317 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 May 1915, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Dublin, SA, 6 August 1892 |
| Home Town: | Dublin, Mallala, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Roseworthy Agriculture College |
| Occupation: | Wool Classer |
| Died: | Barmera, 18 January 1932, aged 39 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Barmera Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Dublin WW1 & WW2 Roll of Honor, Dublin War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 20 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1317, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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| 5 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1317, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1317, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Warilda, Brisbane | |
| 16 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1317, 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Henry DRISCOLL and Loiusa fmly BILNEY nee LOMAN
Biography contributed by Xavier Two Wells
Driscoll grew up with five siblings named Hilda Marion Driscoll, Alice Martha Driscoll, Andrew Leonard Driscoll, Eliza Driscoll and Leslie George Driscoll. He had two half siblings named Elsie May Binley and Andrew Alexander Arthur Binley. Driscoll’s Mother Louisa Lomman was previously married to George Edmund Binley until he passed away in 1880. In 1883 Louisa Married Driscoll’s father Henry Michael Driscoll.
In 1910 Driscoll won a government scholarship which was entitled to him from 1910 to 1913, at the Roseworthy Agricultural College. In 1913 Driscoll was awarded a first-class diploma. He enjoyed playing sports such as tennis, cricket, and football, He joined the first sport teams at Roseworthy Agricultural College. While at the College, Driscoll kept a vast collection of farm diaries where he recorded all the harvests, planting, food preservation, livestock care, and household maintenance. After he completed his education he worked as a Wool Classer.
Driscoll first enlisted in 1915 in Brisbane on the 19th of May when he was 22 years of age. He embarked from Australia 5 October 1915 to the Middle East and was absorbed into the 2nd Light Horse in December 1915. He proceeded to the front 14 January 1916. There he defended the Suez canal against Arab attacks and fought at the Battle of Romani in August and Maghdaba and Rafa in November.
He was appointed Lance Corporal 2 March 1917 and then Temporary Corporal in November of the same year. He fought in the Sinai and Palestine campaign
Sergeant Driscoll spent from July 1918 moving between different hospitals throughout Egypt, mostly around Moascar and Fayid. His records show that he was treated for an infection and spent time in isolation wards, rest camps, and stationary hospitals. His medical treatment continued into February 1919.
Driscoll was discharged on the sixteenth of June 1919 because of cessation of hostilities, after four years and 28 days of total service and three years and 193 days abroad.
After Driscoll was discharged he married Elsie Eliza Formby. Elsie was born 23 December 1872, in Woodville, South Australia. She had a previous husband named Robert Williams “Bob” Waters who passed away on the twentieth of February 1912 at the age of thirty-seven from pleurisy and pneumonia. Robert and Eliza were married at the Holy Trinity Church in Adelaide, 22 November 1921.
Wilfred Driscoll died 18 Jan 1932 aged 39 and was buried at Barmera Cemetery. His wife Eliza had passed a few years ealier in 1926.
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