Dan SHEAHAN

SHEAHAN, Dan

    Service Number: 2656
    Enlisted: 28 July 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Newmarket, Cork Ireland, 8 June 1881
    Home Town: Bugaldie, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Ingham, Queensland, Australia, 15 March 1977, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: New Ingham Cemetery, Qld
    RC, Cem Row 27, Cem Plot 32
    Memorials: Coonabarabran War Memorial Clock Tower
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    World War 1 Service

    28 Jul 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2656, 34th Infantry Battalion
    17 Nov 1916: Involvement Private, 2656, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Napier embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
    17 Nov 1916: Embarked Private, 2656, 34th Infantry Battalion, SS Napier, Sydney
    26 May 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 13th Infantry Battalion
    20 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2656, 13th Infantry Battalion, 1st MD

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    Biography contributed by Evan Evans

    The original poem "A Pub Without Beer" was written by Dan Sheahan of Ingham, North Queensland (originally from Newmarket, Ireland) in the Day Dawn Hotel (named after a gold mine company and demolished in the late 1950's), now known as Lees Hotel (built on same site), Ingham, Queensland, the original dates back even further to 1943 and beer rations or visiting American service people 'drinking the place dry'. 

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