BRANDON, Joseph
| Service Numbers: | 2544, N273884 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
| Born: | Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, 21 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | Kootingal, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | labourer |
| Died: | 11 March 1955, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-194. 52. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2544, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2544, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2544, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 3 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2544, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, medically unfit (myalgia, both upper & lower limbs & back) |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N273884, 11th Garrison Battalion | |
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| 5 Feb 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N273884, 31st Garrison Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
70 years ago today, on the 14th March 1955, Private Joseph Ernest Brandon, 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery (Reg No-2544), labourer from Kootingal, via Tamworth, New South Wales and Somerton, N.S.W. and Hamilton?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. ANGLICAN 3-194. 52.
Born at Cootamundra, New South Wales on the 21st November 1894 as Joseph Horace to Joseph John, died 24.11.1905, Bourke Street, Cootamundra, New South Wales, age 73, buried?, mother of 2, died?; husband of Lily May Brandon nee Bridgens, married 1919, Tamworth, N.S.W., died 11.9.1971, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 67, sleeping here, Joe enlisted on the 22nd September 1916 with the 36th Battalion at Armidale, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 9 November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 10.2.1917 (rheumatism, slight), 3.11.1917 (bronchitis), 9.1.1918 (rheumatism).
Invalided to England 1.12.1917.
Commenced return to Australia 12.5.1918.
Joe was invalided home on the 7th July 1918, being discharged medically unfit (myalgia, both upper & lower limbs & back) on the 3rd August 1918.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Brandon’s name has been inscribed on the Kootingal War Memorial and Memory Park.
I have placed poppies at Joe’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Also served 2nd A.I.F., N273884, 11th Australian Garrison Battalion & 31st Australian Garrison Battalion, 19.7.1941 to 19.2.1943.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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