DONEGAN, Harry
| Service Number: | 4396 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bray, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Cootamundra, Cootamundra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4396, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
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| 3 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4396, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
29th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Mother, Mrs Kate Donegan, 54 Main Street, Bray, Ireland [Bray (Irish: Bré [bʲɾʲeː]) is a coastal town in north County Wicklow, Ireland but it may be that the Bray where his mother lived was in County Louth]
Enlistment date 18 April 1916
Place of enlistment-Cootamundra, New South Wales
Age at embarkation 24
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/46/3
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A19 Afric on 3 November 1916
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records-Town: Temora, New South Wales
War service: Western Front
Embarked Sydney, 3 November 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 9 January 1917.
Proceeded overseas to France, 15 March 1917; marched in to 5th Australian Division Base Depot, Etaples, France, 16 March 1917; marched out to unit, 19 March 1917; taken on strength of 29th Bn, 22 March 1917.
Wounded in action, admitted to 6th Australian Field Ambulance and transferred to 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, 26 September 1917; to 14th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 September 1917 (shrapnel wound to right arm); to England, 29 September 1917.
Marched in from hospital to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, England, 31 October 1917; marched in to No 1 Command Depot, Sutton Veny, 6 November 1917; marched in from leave, 23 November 1917; marched in to Overseas Training Brigade, Longbridge Deverill, 15 January 1918; proceeded overseas to France, 1 February 1918; marched in to Australian Infantry Base Depot, Havre, 2 February 1918; marched out to unit, 4 February 1918; rejoined unit in the field, 7 February 1918.
Sources-NAA: B2455, DONEGAN Harry
He is remembered, along with two other Australian casualties on the Great War Memorial in Mary Street, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.
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