Timothy Edmund (Tim) MCMAHON

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MCMAHON, Timothy Edmund

Service Number:	2196
Enlisted:	17 January 1916, Place of Enlistment, Cooma, New South Wales.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tharwa, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 26 October 1894
Home Town:	Michelago, Cooma-Monaro, New South Wales
Schooling:	Tharwa Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and Michelago Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes , Michelago, New South Wales, Australia, 11 May 1979, aged 84 years
Cemetery:	Michelago Cemetery NSW
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World War 1 Service

17 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2196, 55th Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Cooma, New South Wales.
4 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 2196, 55th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
4 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 2196, 55th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney
5 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2196, 55th Infantry Battalion, Medically Unfit

Tim McMahon

Tim McMahon was born at either Majura or Tharwa (depending on your source) but he grew up near Tharwa with his older brother Michael and moved to Michelago with his family in about 1908. McMahon enlisted on 16 January 1916 as a member of the Men from Snowy River Route March. He embarked from Sydney in September 1916 as a Private with the 4th reinforcements to the 55th Battalion and arrived in France in December that year but was immediately hospitalised with bronchitis. He reached the frontline near Flers in January 1917 but by March was hospitalised with defective vision. He briefly rejoined his unit in July 1917 but was hospitalised shortly after with trench fever. By October 1917 he was blind in the right eye and had pains in his right leg. He returned to Australia in February 1919 and was discharged medically unfit on 5 May 1919. He returned to Michelago and lived at 'Hillview' until 1960 when it was burnt down after which he lived with relatives at nearby 'Drydale'. McMahon died on 11 May 1979, aged 84 years, at the Allambee Nursing Home in Belconnen and is buried in Michelago Cemetery. McMahon never married. He was the half brother of William and John Grady.

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