GEARY, Donald Desmond
| Service Number: | 2076 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Scone, New South Wales, Australia, June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Moonan Flat, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 10 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Scone Barwick House War Memorial Arch, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2076, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2076, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2076, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 10th June 1917, Private Donald Desmond Geary, referred to as Don, 36th Battalion (Reg No-2076), stockman from "Mundaribba", Moonan Flat, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by a high explosive artillery shell during the Battle of Messines, age 20.
No Roll of Honour circular summited.
Born at Moonan Flat, New South Wales on the 13th April 1897 to James Joseph (died 30.9.1937, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 68) and Annie Cecilia Geary nee Driscoll (died 14.8.1934, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 63) of "Lynthorpe", Station Street, Waratah, N.S.W., Don enlisted on the 20th March 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A68 Anchises on the 24th August 1916.
Admitted to hospital 3.4.1917 (scabies).
Place of Association – Moonan Flat, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Geary’s name has also been inscribed on the Scone & District's Honour Roll, Scone War Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool and Stone Memorial, Scone War Memorial Library, Scone RSL Club Roll of Honour, Moonan Brook Church Roll of Honor.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription at the Geary gravesite to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Don’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 2-36. 47.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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