WELSH, Daniel
| Service Number: | 7806 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 October 1916, Australian Mining Corps 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Mining Corps |
| Born: | Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, 28 May 1886 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 7 May 1959, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Bundamba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 7806, Australian Mining Corps 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 7806, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 7806, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 19 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 7806, Mining Corps, Australian Mining Corps 2nd Australian Tunneling Company | |
| 8 Feb 1920: | Embarked AIF WW1, 7806, Mining Corps, Embarked for Australia per Konigan Luise | |
| 10 Mar 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 7806, Mining Corps, Mining Corps May Reinforcements 2nd Tunnelling Coy |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Daniel was born in 1886 in Scotland to Bridget Welsh (born 1866 in Ireland and working as an Agricultural Labourer in Scotland when Danile was born). Bridget married Francis (Frank) McManus (born 1867 in Dalkeith, Scotland) in 1895 when Daniel was 9 years of age. They had six children. Frank started work as an Agricultural Labourer at 14 years of age, and by 1891 was a Coal Miner in Scotland. He and Bridget emigrated to QUeensland, Australia in 1923, where Frank was a Labourer in Ipswich, QLD
Daniel had arrived in Ipswich, QLD by 1910 and was working as a Coal Miner when he enlisted in 1916 in the AIF with the Mining Corps, May Reinforcements 2nd Tunneling Coy as a Sapper (Service No: 7806) He was gassed in France in 1918
Daniel continued to live in Ipswich following his Discharge,and worked as a Miner until his death in 1959.
In 1928 Daniel married Dorothea Amelia Margaret Kimpton Wakelin, and following her death in 1936, he remarried Margaret MacIntosh in 1941 in Ipswich, QLD
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