MCGUINNESS, Edward Joseph
| Service Number: | 2046 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Chippendale, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boiler Maker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 15, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2046, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2046, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2046, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Husband Ethel Mary McGuinness of 1011 Strickland Flats, Dale Avenue, Chippendale, NSW. Father of Clarence Edmund McGuinness and Eric George McGuinness
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Edward Joseph McGUINNESS was born in Perth, Western Australia, about December 1888. He enlisted at Liverpool on 3rd February 1915, giving his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘boiler makers labourer’. Edward Joseph McGuinness was married to Ethel Mary, whom he nominated as his next of kin, and they lived in Redfern.
He was llotted to the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion and embarked HMAT ‘Ceramic’ at Sydney on 25th June 1915. He was in Egypt by 22nd July where he was admitted to hospital at Alexandria with an abscess of the axillia (armpit. He joined his unit on Gallipoli on 5th August 1915. He was reported missing the next day. and on 5th June 1916 (the following year) this report was upgraded to ‘Killed in Action’. No body was ever recovered, and he is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
The military authorities advised Ethel that her husband was missing but could tell her no more. Her anxiety was only increased when a letter she had sent was returned undelivered with the word ‘Killed’ written across it. She became very agitated in her correspondence, sending the marked letter to the military demanding further enquiries. They filed it wrongly, just to compound the grief. Eventually she wrote to the Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, complaining of her treatment.
McGuinness is a very late addition to the Roll of Honour.
Edward and Ethel McGuinness had two sons, Clarence Edmund and Eric George.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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