John Joseph QUINN

QUINN, John Joseph

    Service Number: 637
    Enlisted: 1 December 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 33rd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Yass, New South Wales, Australia, August 1875
    Home Town: Camperdown, Inner West, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Bookkeeper
    Died: Killed in Action, Battle of Amiens, France, 8 August 1918
    Cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
    Grave IX. B. 8 INSCRIPTION FALLEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. HIS NAME FOREVER HELD IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE , Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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    World War 1 Service

    1 Dec 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 637, 33rd Infantry Battalion
    21 Jun 1917: Involvement Private, 637, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
    21 Jun 1917: Embarked Private, 637, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne
    8 Aug 1918: Involvement Private, 637, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 637 awm_unit: 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-08-08

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    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    He was 44 and the son of James and Catherine Quinn; husband of Elizabeth Quinn, of 145, Arundel St., Forest Lodge, Sydney, New South Wales.

    For more than a century, his name has been recorded as having no known grave on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, but in 2020, his grave has been located at the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.

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