RILEY, Martin
| Service Number: | 2683 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Galway, Ireland, 1873 |
| Home Town: | Cloncurry, Cloncurry, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cook |
| Died: | Heart Failure, Railway Hotel, Longreach, Queensland, Australia , 20 November 1928 |
| Cemetery: |
Longreach Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2683, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 21 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 2683, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 2683, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
We regret to announce the death from heart failure, early on Tuesday morning, of Mr. Martin Riley at the age of 66. A few hours before Mr. Riley's deth, he suddenly took ill in his room at the Railway Hotel. The Ambulance Brigade had just been summoned to convey him to the Hospital when he passed away. The late Mr. Riley had been in this district for a large number of years, and followed the occupation of cook. He had no known relatives. Mr. Riley was a Returned Soldier, and he was given a military funeral by the Longreach sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. on Tuesday, the Rev. Father Jones officating at the graveside.
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