EGAN, Claude Edwin
| Service Number: | 5333 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Darlinghurst, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Ignatius College, Galway, Ireland |
| Occupation: | Sacristan [an officer charged with care of the sacristy, the church, and their contents.] |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 May 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 5333, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 5333, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
19th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 22 and the son of John and Rosanna Egan of 56, Mount Joy Square, Dublin, Ireland.He learned Bookkeeping, shorthand and typing.
He is remembered on the War Memorial in Belvedere College, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1.
Age on arrival in Australia-19.
Address-13 Leichhardt Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Enlistment date-28 February 1916
Place of enlistment-Sydney, New South Wales
Rank on enlistment-Private
AWM Embarkation Roll number-23/36/3
Age at embarkation 21
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 22 August 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll-Private
War service: Western Front
Sources-NAA: B2455, EGAN Claud Edwin
His brother, Private Ernest Arthur Egan, Regimental number 931 served with the 6th Battalion, H Company, 15th Light Horse Regiment and survived the Great War. [Discharged 19 July 1919]
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